Hey Carl

In my templates, I changed this:

   <div class="commentgravatar">
        $_gravatar
   </div>

...to this:

   <div class="commentgravatar">
    <a href="$gravatar_link_default">
        $_gravatar
    </a>
   </div>

...Where "$gravatar_link_default" is set in the vinetype.config file to be: http://www.gravatar.com

That's working great.

Here why I am doing it:

I have a few readers who are good friends, but they are not really "bloggers." They are commenting on my blog (probably first blog they've ever read), and they don't know what a gravatar is. (Hey, I didn't know either until just recently.) I wanted to encourage them to get a gravatar, and I wanted to make it easy: So, I let the default gravatar image be one with text embedded in it that says "Put your photo here" and when they click the image they are taken to the Gravatar website...

Couple more notes:

This did NOT work:

   <div class="commentgravatar">
    <a href="$gravatar_link_default">$_gravatar</a>
   </div>
 

...but this DOES work:

   <div class="commentgravatar">
    <a href="$gravatar_link_default">
    $_gravatar
    </a>
   </div>

Not sure why the first one does not work. Oh well.

Also.... the way I am doing it now... links everyone's gravatar slot back to the gravatar website, even those who already have a gravatar. Maybe that's good. (?) I am undecided on that. One idea I originally thought about, was to have the link (of the gravatar photo) to be "decided" per row: If the commenter has no gravatar, then link the default image to the gravatar site, but if they do, then perhaps link to the commenter's website instead.

But it looks like the logic to do that would be dependent on something happening/known on the gavatar.com website, which would be beyond the scope of even the vinetype dll itself, and is not something I can even implement as a vinetype user.

Anyhow, it's just fine for me like it is right now.

I wanted to mention this in case it might help another vinetype user.