: cheers : without the spaces Click on the Go Advanced message below the post editor. It gives you a much more complete editor with a choice of a couple hundred smilies/icons.
After you click on advanced editor you'll see this: When you click on the [More] link, you'll see this popup window: You can click on a smilie to insert it at the cursor. Over time, you can memorize the :smilie: shorthand that you can just type in directly.