Blood for the Baron!

Anyone got any top tips for making an avatar?
There is a feature on photobucket for making them out of your pics, I tried that and then attempted putting it on my profile, but it failed to work.
Is there a max no. of pixels or somewhat?
Any help appreciated.
Cheers Andy

Ah, yes it was - new board and all. I just set it to accept 250x250, please try again.

think I`ve found the problem, its 1 kb too big!
i`ll work on it

Please try it again, I've increased the max file size as far as I can.

Cool, thanks for that Baron!!
Found this site http://www.shrinkpictures.com/create-avatar/
Follow the instructions and off you go
Saved it to photo bucket and seems to work............for now