avatar wont work

i was tryintg to put in an avatar but it kept saying it was not jpg but i got it from google and the google picture said it was jpg. i would really like to have one if these but it did not want to work.

most computers come with some kind of basic paint program

if you have one of these programs you could use it to change the file to a .jpg

1- open the pic file in your paint program
2- scale the picture to 100x100 pixels (requried maximum size for avatars on AF)
3- go to "save file as......"
4- at the bottom you should be able to "select file type"
5- select .jpg and save the file
6- try using this new file to create your avatar on AF

hopefully that works, i don't know why else it wouldn't

i'm not sure, but i don't think it NEEDS to be a .jpg
the guys with the really cool avatars use animated .gif files

oh, well, i hope that helps