Sometimes you just need that little bit extra in your communications on the discussion board and sometimes you just want to have a little fun.  With these thoughts in mind we have added the following emoticons to the message posting screen.  Underneath the formating tags you will find:

Name	Code	icon
Happy	:)
Sad	:(
Big Grin	:D
Confused	:-/
Winking	;)
Surprise	:-o

If you position the cursor in the message at the position that you would like the icon to appear and then click on the icon, it will be placed in the message where the cursor was placed.  Alternatively, you can just enter the codes from the above table and the icon graphic will be placed in the message instead of the code entered.