How to change the smileys in WordPress

The answer turned out to be pretty straightforward with no programming necessary:

1.  Go to Site Admin.

2.  Select Appearance on the left.

3.  Select Widgets

4.  Drag the Meta Widget over to the Primary Widget Area on the right.

Although this didn't put it at the bottom of the page, it is an easy way to show a link to your site's RSS feed.

The Import HTML Pages plugin might help you. If you haven't installed WordPress yet, you might want to start with WordPress 2.9.2 (the current maximum version tested with the plugin) and then update to 3.0.1 once you've completed the import.

Potentially the plugin could have problems with HTML that isn't well-formed, but you can use HTML Tidy and/or the W3C Validator service to help check and clean up your pages before you import them.