How to Get an Avatar For Your Website

In the constant search of making a website stand out and be different up has cropped a whole new way to navigate visitors through your website to their destinations; avatars. An avatar is an animated character and you can dictate what he or she or it looks like and says once a visitor is on your website. Having an avatar on your website can help you get your point across in a unique way and many visitors enjoy the almost human interaction. So how do you go about getting an avatar for your website?

It is important to note that an avatar is supposed to capture your essence or in other words what you are all about. However, an avatar for a website can sometimes be nothing more than a representation of that website. For example, if your website is about the stock market then you will want to have an avatar that conveys that message. So a well dressed person who speaks the language would suffice where an avatar that is dressed like a skater dude and is speaking in slang would not.

For that reason the first thing to decide before you set out to create your avatar is to know what kind of avatar you want. Do you want a mythical creature, a real looking person in two dimensional from, or a real looking person in three dimensional form? You may even want a three dimensional image of yourself to be used as the avatar for your website.

Next you must determine what it is you want your avatar to accomplish. Do you want your avatar to lead the visitors to where they want to go or do you simply want to have an avatar to provide a certain level of entertainment value? If you do want your avatar to speak do you want your avatar to have a generic voice or your own recorded voice?

All of these questions must be answered before you set out to create your alter ego avatar as it will determine what type of avatar building website you will work with. Many avatar building websites offer to let you create an avatar for your website for free use but the applications will of course be limited. If you want to have a state of the art avatar that is in three dimension and is speaking with your recorded voice, then you can expect to pay a bit of money to get it.

While you can get a huge list of avatar building websites to work with by conducting a Google or Ping search for such, your options will be very plentiful and trying to pick the right avatar making website to work with can soon leave you with a big headache. Here is a list of three of the better known avatar building websites in no particular order:

'www.sitepal.com
'www.avarsdb.com
'www.gravatar.com

Again, there are many more to choose from but these three come up at the top of every list imaginable in regards to avatar building.

The best thing to do before you definitely decide on paying for an avatar is to experiment with a freebie. If you get a good reaction from your visitors then you can always graduate up to a pay avatar with all the bells and whistles. If it doesn't work out for you then you haven't wasted anything but a little bit of time and energy.

Jason Kay is a professional website developer and uses TalkingWebsite.net to create talking website characters for his sites.