It's also nice to provide an ALT value, in case people are browsing with images disabled or are using a text-to-speech reader:

<img src="foo.jpg" alt="A Photo Of Foo" />

To be consistent with the DOCTYPE image tags should be closed. Thus:

<img src="www.imagesource.com/location/actualfile.jpg" />

Note the slash before the final greater than mark.

Links follow this format:

<a href="www.link.com">HYPERLINK TEXT</a>

Images folow this format:

<img src="www.imagesource.com/location/actualfile.jpg">

-- you can add width information to the image:

<img width="127px" src="www.imagesource.com/location/actualfile.jpg">

px means 'pixels'

-- you can enclose an image inside a link:

<a href="www.link.com"><img width="127px" src="www.imagesource.com/location/actualfile.jpg"></a>

which all combined together with some creative choices can give you something like this:

~~ How does one identify WHICH emoticon will represent WHAT type one is trying to use?

LLAP
J:D

...forgot *you* were here.

Careful, Jen, someone might take you seriously...

...of the top one.

Okay, how about some of these (all sourced from free online collections) ...

I voted to have more emoticons, and I have some suggestions:

Emodecepticons: These specialized emoticons send viruses into the viewers computer, which destroy only happy and good files, like Optimus-files. More than meets the eye, indeed.

Emotipornicons: These could be particularly useful on SOLO, when people get really pissed at each other (which is every single day since I started lurking). What better way to tell your enemy "FU" than to send an animated emoticon of his avatar chomping down on a (fill in porn image here)?

--Dan Edge

I'd like animated emoticons that can speak.

That's all.

I'd like the option of being able to turn emoticons on or off.

Reminds me of an e-mail signature I created and used years ago:

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Theorem: Any "emoticon" that you may find in this mail can be deciphered
by applying a transformation from the orthogonal group O(3) either to
your body or to your monitor.

Proof: Left as an exercise.
------------

Sanjay

Is there not a way to set up a library of emoticons that you can link to when you write something? Is there not some standard HTML-tag that you can include when you must have a smiley face?

And while I'm at it can I request two extras?

(1) A larger window for editing text? Makes it easier for me to look through the text and edit it.
(2) A HTML-101 post that shows me how to properly add HTML-tags so I can more easily include pictures etc. Sadly, the brief formatting guidelines are too brief for uneducated gits like myself!