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Facebook has been grown as the most popular social site, especially in Asia. Facebook also features chat facility to enable users to do a real time text base communication.

By using some codes you can make some cool emoticons / emotion icons / smiley when you chat with your friends on facebook. For your reference, here I provide you the complete lists of facebook emoticon codes to express your feelings.

It is easy to create facebook emoticons, emotions or smileys, just type these following codes into facebook chat and they will appears in your chat window. Enjoy :D

Facebook Emoticon and Smiley Codes

facebook happy emoticon happy
:-) or :)

big grin
:-D or :D

facebook wink emoticon wink
;-) or ;)

facebook happy eyes emoticon happy eyes
^_^

facebook laughing eyes emoticon laughing eyes
>:o

facebook cat smile emoticon cat smile
:3

facebook grumpy emoticon grumpy
>:-(

facebook sad emoticon sad
:-( or :(

facebook crying emoticon crying
:’(

facebook shocked emoticon Shocked
:-o or :o

facebook glasses emoticon Glasses
8-) or 8)

facebook cool shades emoticon Cool shades
8-|

facebook tongue emoticon Tongue
:-P or :P

facebook woot emoticon Woot
O.o

facebook dork emoticon Nerd
-_-

facebook uncertain emoticon Uncertain
:/ or :\

facebook devil emoticon Devil
3:)

facebook angel emoticon Angel
O:)

facebook kiss emoticon Kiss
:-* or :*

facebook love emoticon Love
<3

facebook pacman emoticon Pacman
:v

facebook robot emoticon Robot
:| ]

facebook guy face putnam emoticon Guy face / chris putnam
:putnam:

facebook chat penguin emoticon Penguin
<(“)

facebook chat shark emoticon Shark
(^^^)

We all make common web design mistakes. You must have read a lot about how to create an interesting website, or a good design or a user friendly design.

Since my first attempt in 1996, I have compiled many top-10 lists of the biggest mistakes in Web design. This article presents the highlights: the very worst mistakes of Web design.

1. Avoid PDF Files for Online Reading

Users hate coming across a PDF file while browsing, because it breaks their flow. Even simple things like printing or saving documents are difficult because standard browser commands don’t work. Layouts are often optimized for a sheet of paper, which rarely matches the size of the user’s browser window. Bye-bye smooth scrolling. Hello tiny fonts.

Worst of all, PDF is an undifferentiated blob of content that’s hard to navigate.

PDF is great for printing and for distributing manuals and other big documents that need to be printed. Reserve it for this purpose and convert any information that needs to be browsed or read on the screen into real web pages.

2. Make the content scannable

this is the Internet, not a book, so forget large blocks of text. Probably I will be visiting your site while I work on other stuff so make sure that I can scan through the entire content. Bullet points, headers, subheaders, lists. Anything that will help the reader filter what he is looking for.

3. Use the Free Font…It Looks Fine to Me
There was a time in my life when (a) all serif fonts looked the same and (b) no font was worth paying for. I have since rescinded on both, and continue to learn more about the complex and beautiful world of typography. Honestly, if there was one subject I wish I could master, it would be typography. You can have a great website with only a little color and great type (and such is the basis for any great design anyways). Again, becoming better at typography requires reading and training your eye by looking at good sites. And please never categorize all fonts under either “fun” or “boring.”

4. Spelling and Grammar Mistakes

Face it, we all make spelling mistakes sometimes when we type. Normally we leave that burden to Microsoft Word Spell Checker.

But, the web editor you use may not be as feature rich as Microsoft Word. It may catch spelling errors but not grammatical ones.

5. Tiny clickable areas

Hyperlinks are designed to be clicked, so to make them usable, it makes sense to ensure that they’re easy to click. Here’s an example of links that are far too small; clicking them is harder than it should be.

6. Where’s the Search box?

The web is like an archive of information. Whether it’s a corporate website or merely a blog, a search box is essential. The visitor might be looking for something that is hidden within the website, with the search box, chances are, visitors will get what they want.