Hi SgtRock.
About the pictures in the bottom, it is the forum setting, that lowers down wasted bandwidth, and at the side of the server,
and also protects the users with low speed connections, from the automatic load of who knows what file size of pictures, that had been loaded from one or several users.
By using technical tricks that by pass this limitation, you could have a blog style looking presentation, that would cause a waste in bandwidth and time.
The page will take ages to load.
About the smileys, just click the one that you need, with your mouse , when the typing cursor flashes at the end of your text,
that you need to add it.
Many forums have an special " test box" that users can write testing messages and learn what the forum text editor can do.
The EEV does not have one.
For an simple quote, highlight the text that you need, and press the button for it.
By moving your mouse over its button , in a second or two , appears an helping label that explain what it does.