Emoticon/Smileys from another forum

by Sister Florence September 12th 2010, 3:21 am

Hi

Is it possible for me to add the Smileys/Emoticons from
http://www.fertilityfriends.co.uk/forum
on my own forum here http://sisters-4-sisters.motionsforum.com

If so, can someone advise me please how to do it.

Thanks
Florence

by KingOfSports September 12th 2010, 4:03 am

You need to save the smilies to a folder and upload them to your site.

ACP > Display > Avatars > Smilies

by Sister Florence September 12th 2010, 10:11 am

Hi King

Thanks for answering. Could you be a little more specific please? How do I save them? Do I have to save the http code? I'm not sure how to save animated things.

I've just got a basic forum. Do I need addtional code or BB3 or any of the complicated stuff?

Florence

by Sanket September 12th 2010, 1:43 pm

Just Upload the smileys from your computer to your forum through the way KingOfSports suggested.

by Guest September 12th 2010, 5:31 pm

Some might consider this stealing. And if the images are copyrighted, the owner of the images could take action against you. So be careful.

I'm a little surprised that the two staff members who replied didn't make this comment...

by Sanket September 12th 2010, 5:37 pm

Dion wrote:Some might consider this stealing. And if the images are copyrighted, the owner of the images could take action against you. So be careful.

I'm a little surprised that the two staff members who replied didn't make this comment...

I am not really surprised by your comment Dion.

Generally smileys are not copyrighted. Moreover, we didn't give him advice to copy it from a website. We asked him to upload from his computer.

Also, i don't want to argue on this. Just wanted you to know.

by Guest September 12th 2010, 6:04 pm

Sanket wrote:Moreover, we didn't give him advice to copy it from a website. We asked him to upload from his computer.

Perhaps you didn't directly give the advice, but another staff member did.

KingOfSports wrote:You need to save the smilies to a folder and upload them to your site.

ACP > Display > Avatars > Smilies

And you're right, smilies aren't generally copyrighted (though some are), and it's not worth arguing about. In fact, the only reason I replied was because the advice came from staff members. Seeya.

by Sister Florence September 13th 2010, 6:06 pm

Ok Let me rephrase the question. If I want to save smileys which I know are not copyrighted, but which are animated how do I save them before uploading them.

Florence

by WHITESABBATH September 13th 2010, 6:18 pm

right click on the image > save image as

by Sister Florence September 14th 2010, 1:31 am

Hi. Right so I have got as far as uploading the smilies but now I have to fill in fields

code (?????)
smile emotion (ok)
then choose a category (????)
upload file (ok)

I don't understand the code part or the category part. Can someone please explain both to me, pretty please?

Florence

by KingOfSports September 14th 2010, 1:54 am

Code = ~~URL of the image~~ Code to make the smiley show up. For example: Emoticon/Smileys from another forum Redface

When you type in Emoticon/Smileys from another forum Redface

to your post, a smiley will show up.
Category = You don't really need this, but you can separate the smilies into different categories. For example, you could have sports smilies, blue smilies, etc.

by boffer10 September 14th 2010, 2:06 am

the code is characters or words between colons. Make them up-whatever you want that hasn't been used.

:smile: :darnstaffmember: :yahoo22:

category shows up in the drop down list to the right of the post edit box. You can leave it as Smilie 1 etc or you can give the categories names. It's just a way to organize them so they are easier to find.