How do I use smilies on message boards?
Whether you are posting on an Ultimate Bulletin Board (UBB), vBulletin board, or an ezboard, there are probably standard smilies set to appear if you use a combination of characters. For example, typing 🙂 might produce a in your post. Check the message board’s Help or FAQ to see what smilies are available and how to use them. You can also use your own smilies on a message board. First, you’ll need a web host that allows for remote linking. Remote linking is linking to files from a website other than the one where the files are hosted. Once you’ve uploaded your smilies to your own web space, you can add them to your posts with some code. The code for vBulletin boards would look something like this: [img]http://www.website.com/smiley.gif[/img] Just change the link between the [img] tags to the URL of the smiley you want to use and the image should appear in your post. When I try to save a smiley, it has a .bmp extension. This problem ususally occurs when the Temporary Internet Files fol
