Monday 25 June 2012

What are ASCII art and emoticons

Internet is an indirect exchange zone, when you talk to someone or writing something, you can not express your emotions because you are not in front of you. That is why we use emoticons (or smiley). They may consist of a sequence of characters or simply a picture or sequence of pictures (animated gif format).
ASCII art
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a standard that defines how characters should be coded on 7 bits. So there is only 128 characters total (95 viewable). You can find on the Internet that gives you ASCII representation of 8 bits of a character (the eighth is still 0).
The ASCII art is to create shapes and images with a number of characters limited. You can do this directly or with software that converts your drawings. This gives rather interesting results.
It is common in programs Review decorated by ASCII characters that create boundaries. It is a drift of ASCII art.
Thus, systems that do not read images directly (as in Microsoft Windows command prompt or MS-DOS and terminal on Mac or Linux) can still see shapes that can embellish these tools.

Wednesday 23 May 2012

How to change the smilies in WordPress ?

WordPress offers a variety of native smilies automatically generated when you enter the shortcut to which they refer. For example, typing ":)" WordPress will convert the text into an image when the publication of an article for a smileyHow to change the smilies-emoticons in WordPress like this . Here is a simple trick that will allow you to replace default emoticons with your own what is sure to give a more personal character to your site or blog.


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How to change the smilies / emoticons in WordPress