Thread: More smiley choices

Greetings,
It would be nice to have more smiley options. There are quite a few cool ones out there.

Where's the little guy with the tear running down his cheek?

X

Yes, there are tons of cute smilies. If you have a couple favorites, show them to us.

I have thousands of smiley gif files in various collections I've downloaded over the years, but I find I only routinely use a few "special" ones. I host them elsewhere (on a free picture server) so I don't take up space/bandwidth on SRP's server. This provides me the added benefit of being able to use them on all the other forums I frequent.

BTW, a month or so ago I added some additional smilies to the "standard" set that comes with vBulletin... I believe it was all the animated ones plus foot-in-mouth and zip-lip.

On average, most posters don't use smilies at all, and a few consider smilies downright "annoying". In the world of smilies, beauty is certainly in the eye of the beholder.

I try to keep the following in mind when I choose smilies...

• is the site "family oriented"... nuff said.
• graphics that look super on large monitors running higher resolutions sometimes turn into "blobs" at 640x480 on a 14-inch screen. You might be surprised at the number of people still running at lower resolutions... eg, those with eyesight issues, those using WebTV, etc., and those just too frugal to buy up to current hardware standards.
• studies show animated graphics are cute, but distracting... in fact they cause some people to avoid the adjacent content area completely (I guess that's why I chose an animated avatar, hehe...). They certainly can cause one to loose theirtrain of thought.
• people have widely different tastes in configuring their displays... some love our red2black style, others hate it. The darker smilies (eg, )almost "disappear" on the dark backgound styles, the light smilies on the pastel background ones... life just has to be a compromize, LOL.
• large smilies tend to be considered really annoying by lots of people because they distort line/word spacing.

AZ... there were some cool ones on the Flashchat thingie. Can those be used? I like the fainting guy, and a couple others.

Originally Posted by urleebird

AZ... there were some cool ones on the Flashchat thingie. Can those be used? I like the fainting guy, and a couple others.

The short answer is no, at least not easily...

I like a couple of them too, and I looked into "borrowing" them when I first played w/flashchat in preparation for installing it back in April. Unfortunately, because flashchat is based on flash technology those smilies are flash objects instead of the gifs we're used to seeing as smilies. It is possible to extract the graphic from the flash file and then convert it to a gif, but you have to have some fairly expensive expensive software to do that... and, of course, the time to figure out how to run that software.

Ok, here's a half dozen I ran across and added...

Whistling

Yowsa!

Bowing

thumbs-up

thumbs-down

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I'll add more when I get a chance.

Joe,

I had all but given up! And now you come through for us!

RT

wait a second, there are a ton of cool smilies at the B&B forum, can we use those? As a friendly shaving site, that is

Nenad

good question... are the free for use or copyrighted?