How Do You Add Smilies To Your Posts?

[marchale]

Hope I'm not sounding too dumb by asking this - but how do you add smilies to your posts? I've so often wished I could (and am real envious of those who can) but I'll be damned if I can figure it out! Anyway, I've tried doing a search for it (both here and on google) but with no luck, every time I've tried to do it, it comes out as something like the following:

http://triaxiansilk.com/phpBB3/posting.php?mode=post&f=6#

or else:

[url][/url]

or else:
[img]http://triaxiansilk.com/phpBB3/posting.php?mode=post&f=6&sid=2725dca056a7c0f01ce2da9fb7b45a1a#[/img]

or else:

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http://triaxiansilk.com/phpBB3/posting.php?mode=post&f=6#

Could someone please give me simple, step by step instructions on how to make the smilies appear rather than the written stuff above I've had to repeatedly edit out of my posts? Thanks, Marc

[Cogito]

When you edit a message, the window shows a panel on the left that contains lots of smilies. There's a link 'View more smiles' at the bottom of the panel to open a popup window with even more smilies. If the smiley you want to use is any of these, just click on the smiley image and that will insert a special sequence of characters like (colon) (D) to display . Once you see what the character sequences are, you might get familiar enough with the more common ones to type then in directly. Either way works the same.

If you want to be extra clever and use a smiley that is hosted somewhere else then you need to find out the URL (http://blablabla/something.jpg) of the image file. If you see the image you want on another web site you can find the URL in most browsers by right-clicking on it and then selecting 'properties'. In Firefox you can easily copy the URL to your computer's clipboard by selecting 'copy image location'.

To insert the image into your post click on the Img button in the message editor and it will put

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[img][/img]

into your message. Just put your image URL in the middle so you get

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[img]http://images.zaazu.com/img/male03-happy-smiley-smile-smiley-emoticon-000043-medium.gif[/img]

and when you post the message that displays like this, which is how you're gonna feel when it works:

[marchale]

When you edit a message, the window shows a panel on the left that contains lots of smilies. There's a link 'View more smiles' at the bottom of the panel to open a popup window with even more smilies. If the smiley you want to use is any of these, just click on the smiley image and that will insert a special sequence of characters like (colon) (D) to display . Once you see what the character sequences are, you might get familiar enough with the more common ones to type then in directly. Either way works the same.

If you want to be extra clever and use a smiley that is hosted somewhere else then you need to find out the URL (http://blablabla/something.jpg) of the image file. If you see the image you want on another web site you can find the URL in most browsers by right-clicking on it and then selecting 'properties'. In Firefox you can easily copy the URL to your computer's clipboard by selecting 'copy image location'.

To insert the image into your post click on the Img button in the message editor and it will put

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[img][/img]

into your message. Just put your image URL in the middle so you get

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[img]http://images.zaazu.com/img/male03-happy-smiley-smile-smiley-emoticon-000043-medium.gif[/img]

and when you post the message that displays like this, which is how you're gonna feel when it works:

Thanks so much for your help with this, I really appreciate it, (I never thought to click on the smilie, - I was just trying to 'drag & drop' it from that section into this editing area and then using either the url, img, or code button with it to try to get it to show up, which didn't work ). Anyway, thanks - now I can put some expressiveness behind it if I'm trying to emphasize a point -