The site does have a mobile version (just put an m. instead of the www. as far as I can tell, if not, your mobile browser should redirect you to the mobile version automatically), and you can use effects like smileys and
italics. For the "sad" smiley for example, just type : and ( together. This should make it appear like this:
even if you posted from the mobile version of the site. For italics, you'll have to use the coding method - [ i]TEXT HERE[ /i] (without the spaces obviously). It will appear as
italics on the initial forum, but you won't see the effect on the mobile version.
Hope that was clear enough. Happy simming.