If you look on the Left side of the page, which you use to post a message, you will see yellow text *HTML is ON
*UBB Code is ON
Left click on this link and it will take you to a page, explaining how to insert HTML/UBB code, for several features, including Smilies/Emoticons.(Graphics) However, you do need to know the website address from where you can download the graphics. If you click on the Edit icon of Larry's posting, you will see a few suitable sites, within the code. A search on Google using 'smilies' will return many suitable sites. A good site is :
http://www.mysmilies.com/ ------------------
Willum