I've seen several questions on how TFSers use smilies such as
or
and several more.
A list of smilies (most of them) can be found here, in a journal entry kyahbean so kindly made a while back: link [www.theforumsite.com]
Once you have a few that you like memorized (it comes easily, no worries
) what you do is you type in a colon, the smiley keyword, and then another colon. So if I wanted to get this smiley:
I would type this... : angel : (but without the spaces)
Other smilies can be found on sites specifically for forum smilies. For those types of smilies you must use the img tags. So, you write... [ img ](URL Here)[ /img ] (again without the spaces.)
If you see a smiley you would like to use, but you don't know the code, you can simply quote the person who used the smiley, read exactly how they did it, and then do it yourself! So if you quote this post, you will see my smiley codes, not my smilies. 
You can also check out some favorites here: link [www.theforumsite.com]
Enjoy!