Wouldn't it look better though if the avatar didn't have a border around it? http://forums.digitalpoint.com/badge-25284.png
Yep.. was already changed with the last little update with the PNG thing. Noticed it was looking bad when people had partially transparent avatars. Will reflect fulling in less than an hour (cache time).
Great add Shawn. I want something similar for my forum. Is it custom coded or from vBulletin.org? Did a search but couldn't find it.
How about providing an XML output of the values on the badges as well so the creative heads could try their hand on appearance? Gotta check it with vB though if they already got a mod ready for this.
Would agree with this... Google could get a bit shirty otherwise. I would suggest using something descriptive as the alt text.
Quick suggestion. Why don't you add link to something like 'My Badge' under Quick Links (top nav. bar) ?? DON.