Your's is fine, actually, once you size it down! The forums auto-renders all avatars to 150x150, however, linking off-site can allow you to post images bigger than that. If you size it down yourself and upload it to the forums, it will actually look better! Why? the forums resizes the images using XHTML/CSS resizing, whereas if you do it yourself with Photoshop, The GIMP, or othe decent program (don't use Paint Dx, it fails), it is equivalent to running a video game with antialiasing (no jagged lines, etc.) In short, well: http://www.brighthub.com/internet/web-development/articles/24826.aspx