There are some users and / or topics that are coming up on my forum in blue instead if the standard green.
Is there a reason for this?

www.blitzen.editboard.com

As an aside, is there a way of adding extra smilies to our forum?

you can change them from
ACP - Display - Colors
and for smileys: https://help.forumotion.com/frequently-asked-questions-f5/smilies-emoticons-t8325.htm

None of the settings have been changed so I don't understand why now some names or titles are coming up in blue?
Is it something to do with number of recent views etc?

As for the emoticons link, thanks, I'll look at in a bit.

try add this to your CSS:
ACP - Display - Colors - CSS stylesheet:

Code:

.postbody{background: #ccc !important;}

This hasn't solved it, it has made it look like a cork noticeboard though, which is quite cool!


Here's a grab of what I mean. It doesn't really matter that some text is a different colour, I'm just curious as to why it's doing it.........