Adding emoticons

What are Emoticons?

Emoticons are a symbol-based way of conveying emotion in Internet communications such as email and instant messaging.

For example, if you want to convey pleasure, you may insert the classic smiling emoticon in a sentence:

The Rich Text Editor features an Add Emoticon button, which makes it easy to insert emoticons into your blog entries.


The Button

Add Emoticon

Inserts an emoticon at the text cursor's current location.

To insert an emoticon in the body of your text

1.

Position your cursor at the location where you want to insert an emoticon.

2.

Click the button to open the emoticon pop-up menu:

3.

Click an emoticon image, for example (the smile emoticon). It appears in your text, with resizing handles, at the cursor insertion point:

4.

If you want, resize the emoticon by clicking and dragging the handles. Otherwise, click anywhere on the page so that the handles are no longer visible.

The blog entry with the emoticon will be similar to the example below: