@Victor Murphy,
Hi, Vic. If you look above the open window you are typing in, you will see a row of options, e.g. B, i. quote etc. The last one is 'Emoticons'. Click on it and you'll open a gallery of smilies you can click on to illustrate your post. As for posting pictures, if you have the url, just type it or copy it between [img] and [/img]. Should do the trick.