If you would like to use your own emoticons on the site, you easily can by creating a sprite png of your emoticons similar to ours then adding a line of css to your site to replace it.

For example, here is our emoticon sprite:



http://static-assets.shivtr.com/images/sprite-emotes.png

You could then create your own sprite of a similar size with different emotes, and upload it somewhere, then add the following line of css to your site:

img.sprite_emotes {
  background: url("http://path/to/your/sprite.png");
}

This would then use your own emotes in place of ours =)