The basic
smiley
is arguably the most popular emoticon, but emoticons can also be useful
to convey other feelings. You can make an emoticon just by typing the
relevant characters in your text editor. No special formatting is
needed! For example if you type a colon : followed by the symbol ) you
won't immediately see a smiley but when you save your post you'll see it
has appeared on the page like this:
.