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Once again, it is time for Friday Follow! This is a celebration founded and hosted by One 2 Try, Hearts Make Families and Midday Escapades. To participate, all you have to do is link up your blog to the blog hop, follow the first three blogs (although Hearts Make Families cannot participate this week due to technical issues), and then follow as many other blogs as you like leaving comments that let them know you found them through Friday Follow! I will visit and follow back anybody who tells me they are from Friday Follow, even if they leave comments on Saturday (or Thursday or any other day). This is a great way to discover new blogs to follow and to gain more followers for your own blog. Happy Friday Follow!

I ♥ symbols because they are a cute and fun way to personalize text. I used to enjoy putting them in comments and forum messages. Then, somewhere along the line I quit doing this. Maybe I decided it was more practical to say what I wanted without cutesying everything up?

Lately, I have been going to lots of forums and comment forms and I never see people using these symbols. This symbol deficiency makes me want to go symbol CrAZy and start putting the fun back in functional!

I realize that the only reason many people do not use symbols when they write is because they don’t know how. If that is the case, prepare to smile because I am going to tell you!

The first thing to realize is that the method of adding symbols is different if you are doing it in a program, than it is if you are doing it in a comment. In a program such as Word or Photoshop you can create tons of symbols using wingding or dingbat fonts. If you do not have the fonts installed or just want a quick way to make a heart you can use the alt key along with the numeric keypad to the right of your keyboard.

The regular number keys will not work to create symbols; only the right-side keypad. The great thing about creating symbols with the alt-key and  numeric keypad is that you can create these symbols on practically any comment form, message board, or guestbook!

Smiley face ☺ is Alt, 1

Heart ♥ is Alt, 3

Diamond &diamonds;  is Alt, 4

Club ♣ is Alt, 5

Spade ♠ is Alt, 6

Bullet • is Alt, 7

Music Notes ♫ is Alt, 1, 4

Sun ☼ is Alt, 1, 5

If you want to create symbols for a website using html, you must use special characters (or an image, but that is another topic). Go to this acronet page or this bigbaer page for huge character entity guides. They always begin with an ampersand and end with a semicolon. Ì hope this post made ¢

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