Smilies in Signatures

[Paul Evans]

On 9 October, Sam said: "I have tried using a smilie in my signature but it doesn't work!"

 

On 10 October, Jon said: "I don't think so Sam. Sorry"

 

I've been playing around (Well, it's a wet Sunday afternoon and the boat's 100 miles away) and found that you can include smilies and emoticons. If you have EmotiPad Plus (or, I assume, a similar smilie program), you can drag the smilies or emoticons into your signature. There is a maximum length of 10,000 characters in a signature. The two smilies in my current signature use 119 characters so you could have a fair number.

 

If you don't have EmotiPad Plus or similar you need to type in the URL of the smilie you want to include preceded by "["img"]" and followed by "["/img"]" ignoring the quotation marks and with no spaces. You can find the URL of the smilie by right clicking on it and selecting Properties in the drop down menu. To avoid typing errors, select the URL and use copy and paste.

 

Sam - have fun!

 

Jon - If we all start using smilies and emoticons indiscriminately, will there be any adverse effects on the forum or your bandwidth?

[Bernie]

Paul, why is the boat on your avatar sinking?

[Paul Evans]

Because it has a hole in the bottom;

Because I left the weed hatch off;

It's not - it's going up and down in a lock;

Because it was the best I could do at short notice on a wet Sunday afternoon.

 

Here's a bigger version - too big to use as an avatar in this forum:

 

 

I'll try to produce a chug-along version next time it's wet.

Edited October 18, 2004 by Paul Evans

[Bernie]

Whoops, sorry, never thought of that, must have been having a---------

 

 

 

[Paul Evans]

Bernie,

 

It's not been raining but I had nothing else to do so how's this:

 

 

It's a very busy canal where all the boats look alike and go very fast!

[Bernie]

Like them Paul, especially with remote steering, are the crew inside having a

or are they

or both?

[Jon]

Can't see it having any problems. Not enough to worry about anyway

 

 

Closing as now seems resolved.

 

Jon

Edited October 20, 2004 by Jon