figure out how to do it myself
No problem, Dear! Just put [url] http:// in front of the address, and this, after: [/url]. Same thing for colors, bold, and italics: [what you want]in front, and [/what you want] at the end.
You can see that bracket-url-bracket puts an http:// in. I have discovered that if you put the bracket-url-bracket at the end of a line, so that you have to go to the next line to put in the address, this system will add an extra http, and your link won't work.
If this wasn't clear enough (to anybody), feel free to send me a Private Message. The list of colors and faces can be found when you click on "markup in your posts" at the top of your screen when you reply to a message. Note that you don't have to "end" smileys by putting a second pair of brackets and a slash. Just [whatever face you want] will do it.