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Graphics & Pixel Font Use-License
May 8th, 2010 by Mirz

UPDATED August 16, 2010

After a lot of thought, I have decided to open the majority of my smiley, emoticon, and pixel-font work for Commercial use. They are being licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

Creative Commons License

This page is to outline my requirements for use of my graphics. Allowing commercial use without payment is a big thing and I hope that users will be fair and honor my small requests in return for the use.

• I must be credited somewhere in the project. If it is a website and there is a credits page, I request that my name and moniker be used. Example: Smileys by Michelle Lehmann (a/k/a Mirz123).

• With the credit, there should be a link-back to this site. It may be a small text link and does not have to be clickable. However, it should point to the main page of http://www.scriptmonkeys.us.

• You may not modify the smileys or build upon them. If you need something special, please contact me. I do commission work. However, for the right project I might be willing to do some freebies.

• If you have a commercial website, blog, etc., you may use the images and/or fonts without payment.

• You may not sell the images on their own or as part of a pack. In short, you may not profit from the direct sale or distribution of this font. As example, and to make this more clear, you cannot add the smileys/emotes to a CD of smileys you are selling. However, if you are developing a forum system which you intend to sell, you may include the smileys in that project. If you have ANY questions about this provision, email me and I will be happy to clarify. If you are interested in distributing the individual graphics or fonts on their own, a different license is required and available. Please contact me to discuss terms.

• For commercial products and/or websites, you must contact me and let me know you are using my fonts and/or graphics. This is not for restrictive purposes, but the fact that I like to know when my work is being used for profit. It’s also a general courtesy. In addition, I must be provided with a copy of the final product (or link to a website/blog/etc.) so I can include same in my portfolio.

• My previous terms of use still apply. You may use my works, free-of-charge, for non-commercial use on your chats, websites, blogs, forums, and other systems. You may re-distribute them on collection sites as long as they are offered free-of-charge (no subscription needed, payment for premium content, etc.), as long as the filename and credit remains in-tact. For non-commercial uses, I appreciate a credit and link-back to my page, but it’s not required.

As an open-source developer and user myself, I understand and appreciate the value of good, free-use, resources. I know that offering this license may open my work up to abuse. But, honestly, if people are devious enough to not live up to the TOS, they would have most likely violated the terms even if I hadn’t changed the license. This change is for all of the good, fair, and honest people out there who want and need quality resources for their projects.

Of course, if you ever need custom graphics done, I hope you’ll keep me in mind. :D

Legal Stuff: These terms of service may be changed from time to time, without notice. I reserve the right to revoke this license at any time.

WordPress Basic Emote Pack
Feb 28th, 2010 by Mirz

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I have to admit, I love WordPress. I didn’t always love it. Years ago when it was still evolving, I found it more trouble than not. Admittedly, that was when I was still married to the old “hands-on HTML is the best” way of thinking. Well, WordPress certainly changed since then, and so has my attitude about it. I’m simply a girl in love.

Another one of my loves is smileys. I think it’s great that WordPress incorporates smileys into its system. However, the choice of smileys is not very exciting. There are some great plug-ins that allow you to expand your smiley options, but the available alternatives are few.

Recently, my own pixelling has been heavily in the emote area. Yes, even though I still think of them all as smilies myself, there IS a difference between emotes and smileys, and there are some people who are VERY particular about it. Nevertheless, when setting up a blog recently, I wanted a nice set of colorful emotes–and simply could not find any. Necessity is the Mother of Invention, so I went and created a batch myself.

This pack include 22 emoticons. All were hand-pixelled by me. The graphics are static, as I know there are many people who prefer non-moving emotes for their blogs. However, I am working to make an animated set of these emotes in the near future. Even though these emotes were developed for WordPress, they can certainly be used independently on forums, websites, chats, etc.

The pack also includes all of the necessary files for WordPress, as well as a Readme with my terms of service. I do want to also note that the file names of the smileys are the same as the base names of the default WordPress smileys. So, if you don’t want to mess with installing a pack, you can just upload these to your smiley directory. They will overwrite/replace the originals and should work fine.

You can download the pack HERE. We’ll also be listing it over at the WordPress site soon. scriptmonkeys-basic

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