I was asked the other day by someone how I got my smileys and stuff into the posts and I felt terrible for not being able to give a proper, let alone understandable, explanation so I wanted to put a quicky tutorial together in the hopes it makes it easier for folks to express themselves.

We'll simply start with: http://www.getmesmileys.com/
Go to the first category (Animals) and we will take the third smiley thingy icon doodmahicky as the example.




Now take your mouse and "left" click on the third option draging from left to right it should then look like this:

This option will allow you to directly place the picture/smiley into your post.

Once that is highlighted, right click on it again to see this:



Now right click copy:


... to be continued

Now go to the post you wish to insert your smiley/picture and when you right click you will see this:


By clicking "Paste" you are taking the smiley from it's original location and allowing it to be seen here and that kind of looks like this:


When you are finished writing /posting and hit send your post will then include:


I hope that was somewhat understandable, or at least better than the last time I tried to explain.

Thanks, Mike, I was the Duh who contacted you!

Mike you just ROCK!!

LOL I didn't want to "out" you I hope this helped.

Excellent tutorial, Mike! I see Lance uploaded some new smilies here too.

Thanks to you both!

Testing smiley

Edit - thanks, Mike - it worked!!

Cool, glad you liked it and that it worked for you.

And just to make life a tad more difficult here are a few that have lots and lots of other smilies and things that might just be up someones alley.
These however you must "Right" click and "Save as" to a folder/place of your choice for use at a later time by you.

http://forums.randi.org/misc.php?do=showsmilies
http://www.skylinechat.com/misc.php?do=showsmilies
http://www.smileyworld.com/dictionary/top10.asp?let=A

Have fun

Thanks again!

Now we are going to see a horde of new smilies.
You explained it very well Mike.