Not having any references at hand for fonts or ASKII or whatever, I ...
... wrote myself an email on Excite, choosing "wingdings" as the font, and playing around until I found the symbols I wanted ... snowflake, sun, snowflake ... picked a background color ... picked 2 different text colors and sizes ...
... then emailed it to me at Yahoo! ... where I opened the file, then hit "reply" ... which let me see the coding that created the image I'd made ... and copy it, too ...
... so I pasted that coding into an LJ "comment" ... and used "preview" to tinker (more snowflakes! more lines! change size of snowflakes a little so it all lines up better) until I liked what I had ... and then posted.
Graphics - the "easy" way?????
Not having any references at hand for fonts or ASKII or whatever, I ...
... wrote myself an email on Excite, choosing "wingdings" as the font, and playing around until I found the symbols I wanted ... snowflake, sun, snowflake ... picked a background color ... picked 2 different text colors and sizes ...
... then emailed it to me at Yahoo! ... where I opened the file, then hit "reply" ... which let me see the coding that created the image I'd made ... and copy it, too ...
... so I pasted that coding into an LJ "comment" ... and used "preview" to tinker (more snowflakes! more lines! change size of snowflakes a little so it all lines up better) until I liked what I had ... and then posted.
Amazing how much work it can be to be lazy, no?