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For the smilies (those little faces), jut click the button on the top of your screen that says Graphics Library. It will open a new window and show you all the possibilities. There are 3 pages of them! Just see the code next to a smiley you like and copy or type it here.
For instance a simple smiling smiley is made with : ) (no space btwn the two symbols [img]smile.gif[/img] . Some are made with colons around them, like [img]graemlins/ladyhearts.gif[/img] : ladyhearts :. Again, you'd not uses spaces between the code and the colons.
Cloudy