How Do I Make a Smiley Face on the Computer?

Using the colon, dash and close bracket symbols on your computer properly creates a smiley face on your computer. Each of these symbols is located on standard keyboards.

1. Make the eyes

   Use a colon symbol to make eyes that are sideways: " :."

2. Create the nose

   Next a dash signifies the nose: "-."

3. Add a smile

   The third component of a computer-based smiley face is using a close bracket for the mouth of the smile: ")."

4. Put the symbols together in order

   A computer-based smiley face is created by adding the colon, dash, and close bracket symbols in order: ":-)."