"This is high-quality information..."Tell The World How You Feel With Smileys
Ok, smileys are old history, I know that. Smileys are also called emoticons and are known as glyphs. They are used on various platforms to convey your emotions when you write. Most people use smileys in blogs, on mobile phones, in forum posts and while using instant messaging. Despite their popularity and age, some bloggers still don’t know that they can disable their blogs to display smileys. By default WordPress convert text using two or more punctuation marks to graphic images we commonly known as smileys.
To turn smileys off via your WordPress admin panel, do this:
While turning them off stops smiley images from appearing, you can still use text like semicolon/hyphen/brackets to show your emotions in your blog. Check out the different text options for smileys below:
While smileys are a great way to liven up your blog and your conversations, we can also go overboard with them. Although I like to use them in my comments, I hardly ever do in my posts. The reason being is that while I love to laugh and have fun, I feel no problem in using them in conversations. On the other hand when I write a blog post it is different. To me anyway. I guess I’m trying to bring a message across at times and while smileys would sometimes help to form a picture, in my eyes using them too often, they would make the posts look tacky.
What do you think about smileys? Do you find them loud and garish, or do you use them sometimes in your communications?
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lol i like
the best @_@
-Katy
my favorite of them all is the
one @_@
-Katy
my favorite is of course the smile
Wow, I never know this. Thanks a lot!
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I love smileys
I can almost say it is an addiction. I can hardly write a post without inserting at least two smiley to convene my mood. Thanks for sharing them.
Smiley are OK. Like you mentioned, try not using it too often. :8)
Smile and the whole world smiles with you!
:D 