i am new on this board and i just wanted to kno...how do you get a picture underneath your user name...it puzzles me

You have to go to your user cp, then to edit options and then change avatar. You can make your own pictures and upload them from your computer, but they have to be 150 x 150 pixels or less and 25,000 bytes or less.

How do you get smilies in your signature? Also, how do you make your font a different color in your signature?