Adding smileys and emoticons to your blog post

Add emoticons and smileys to your blog posts. Here's how...
Adding smileys and emoticons to blog posts is easy. It makes your blogs look more meaningful and communicative besides that extra pinch of “expression” that tags along. Listed below are three means by which you can do this:

Method 1:
Click cybergifs to download emoticons for free. Right click on the emoticon that you want to use in your blog and the “Save Target As” as a jpeg image in your hard disk. You can download as many as you want and save them all in a folder for use.
When you are composing your blog, you can click the “Add Image” icon in your composer menu. This leads you to a pop up page where you can browse to the emoticon icon that you saved earlier, upload the image and click “Done”. You need to specify the image location if your want a specific pattern (right/left/center aligned) for your image to appear in your blog post. If you don’t choose any pattern, then you will have to manually drag the image (after you click “Done”).

Method 2:
Another way to add smileys or emoticons as images in your blogs (as in method1) is to download smiley central software from http://www.freesmileys.org/free-smiley-faces-download.php
The download from smiley central is free and this offers a wide variety of smileys, screensavers, cursors, fun-cards and emoticons to choose from (super smileys, talking smileys, custom smileys etc).
Once the download is complete, you will see a smiley icon in your menu bar.
When you are next composing your blog, you first place the cursor where you want the smiley to be placed, click on the smiley icon in the menu bar, browse through the smileys that show up and pick your choice. Click on your smiley to insert it. Simple!!

Method 3:
Another interesting article that I came across was posted by Deepa.
I have provided the link to her blog where you will have to copy paste a piece of code in the “Edit HTML” section of your blog layout.
(To navigate to “Edit HTML”, log into your blogger account go to Dashboard, go to the “Layout” section of the selected blog and click on “Edit HTML” button. It is very important that you take a backup of your old HTML code before you make any changes.)
Add Yahoo emoticons to your blog

Alternatives:
Links and scripts from other bloggers…

To add smileys in your blogs incase you are using wordpress, this link might come in handy:
Wordpress smileys

To add smileys using HTML code as in method 3 above, you can also use the script designed by Sumeet. Click http://sumeet.info/hacks/emoticons.html

http://emoticons4u.com/ is another emoticons gallery.

You can also try the link below

http://freeblogspottemplates.blogspot.com/2006/03/blogger-emoticons.html
And closely follow the instructions mentioned.

The instructions are very detailed and should work on both old and new blogger (beta blogger).

For bloggers using FireFox, this might be useful. http://wolverinex02.googlepages.com/emoticonsforblogger

That’s all for now….
Keep smiling!