Fool's House

I can't say enough about Fool's House really, perhaps it's best summed up as "...if you're an animated smiley connoisseur you'll simply adore the collection that is available there, in fact no other smiley will ever seem the same again...".

The native language of Fool's House is Russian and most of the content is available as such but some of the content has been translated to English so if your Russian is a bit thin on the ground or you find that http://babelfish.altavista.com does a less than adequate job translating it across then stick to the English version and cruise around between Art Zen, Smilies and Workshop then if you're happy to poke around some more do check out the remaining pages in the Russian version as there is more content available there.

The best part is about Fool's House is thatthe animated smileys in the collection are all original because this is a creators site so you're not buried knee deep in oodles of smileys of varying styles or quality which is so often the case with many "collector or mass smiley" sites. Fool's House (IMHO), has some of the very best smileys available on the net, not only for today but for many more days and years to come. The smileys are truly distinctive and you'll be able to spot them a mile away simply because of their unique design and quality.

At the moment there are 9 pages of smileys on offer with approx 20 smileys per page, if you're on a good connection and / or simply just want to get your hands on all the currently available ones then you're best bet is to head directly to the english version of All Smilies as this contains exactly what it implies, all the smilies currently available :) If you flip the Russian All Smilies version you'll notice a download link titled zip [600Kb] in the right hand margin, as at the time of writing this article the zip file (Fool House.zip) contains 166 smilies, some of which are different to the English All Smilies page and in return some that are featured on the English page haven't been included in the zip download. Your best to bet is to grab and download the zip file then trot along to the last couple of pages of the English version and make sure you have all the latest and greatest.

The other perk about Fool's House is that if you don't happen to have a your own webspace or have limited space then you're aok still as you can direct link to the smileys that are available. Simply click on the smiley you wish to copy to a forum post, email etc and then head to the top display field and copy the highlighted code.. simple :) The code is available in ubb, html, ezboard and url format so just select the desired format before you select the smiley and you're all ready to go, if you're unsure then check the examples below...
= yaya.gif
ubb = [img]http://fool.exler.ru/sm/yaya.gif[/img]
html = <img src="http://fool.exler.ru/sm/yaya.gif">
ezboard = [image]http://fool.exler.ru/sm/yaya.gif[/image]
url = http://fool.exler.ru/sm/yaya.gif

Another added bonus that you'll find at Fool's House is a really excellent tutorial for making smileys using Adobe Photoshop 6 and built-in animator ImageReady, if you don't have or use Adobe Photoshop 6 and ImageReady then it's still well worth checking out as there is a heap of information available and the steps shown can be replicated in many graphic and animation programs. The tutorial is in english and outlines the following stages Introduction, Drawing, Animation 1, Animation 2, Optimization, Cropping and Presentation and each stage is very user friendly with supporting graphics outlining the process, so if you're a smiley plonker but never quite new where or who to start making your own smileys then you're going to be in 7th heaven and then some :)

All that said and done...

...Fool's House is one of the best places on the net to go for original, high quality, super fast load smileys, something we dialup users greatly appreciate :) If you have a few minutes up your sleeve trot along and check it out now, it's also well worth bookmarking / adding to your favourites and checking back often as new smileys appear on a regular basis

Homepage: (Russian) http://fool.exler.ru/
Homepage: (English version) http://fool.exler.ru/en/index.htm
Smileys: http://fool.exler.ru/en/sm01.htm (9 pages)
Making a Smiley Tutorial: http://fool.exler.ru/lesson_en01.htm (7 pages)
Links to other smiley related sites: http://fool.exler.ru/en/sm01.htm (bottom of)
Contact / Comments: http://fool.exler.ru/en/comments/

all the smileys featured on this page are © Fool's House, please don't take them from here, make sure you visit http://fool.exler.ru/en/index.htm so you can check out ALL the smileys in his collection :)

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Patches said:

... Bee, you're right about Fool's House smilies ... they are spectacular and it's a lovely site, too! :thumbup: And you've done a lovely job of laying it all out, too! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

11 March 2001

pritesh said:

can u send me sone new smileys plz i loved the smileys can u give me some more plz.excellent work n eforts .

17 August 2006

bee said:

update... Fools House now has it's own domain, you can access it directly at http://www.foolstown.com/

17 August 2006

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