I understand learning to do html can be quite tough. Here is a quick and easy copy and paste guide so most of the basics.

Changing Text size, font and color

To edit this code, simply change where it says "NAME OF FONT" to any font name. I typically use verdana, but of course there is Arial, Terminal etc. You can add any number after the "size" and any color where it is labeled "COLOR HERE". An example of a few color choices are deeppink, hotpink, royalblue, then of course black, red, blue and all of the above.

Making Text Bold

This is by far one of the simplest codes. Simply, fill in between the tags with your choice of text.

Underlining Text

Yet another very simple code. Simply fill in between the tags with your choice of text.

Solid Color Backgrounds

Yet another very simple cody. Just fill refill where it says "COLOR HERE" with your color of choice.

Background Image

This code is not so tricky, it is just finding the url to your image. To use this code you must have some place to host your image. Most website hosts allow you to upload pictures onto their server to use on your webpage, so your image already has a url. (a url is the address as in http://www.picture.gif) If you do not have a website host, you can upload pictures on places such as photobucket.com. Once you have found the images url, replace the part of the code that says IMAGE URL with, of course, the url.

Images

This code is not so tricky, it is just finding the url to your image. To use this code you must have some place to host your image. Most website hosts allow you to upload pictures onto their server to use on your webpage, so your image already has a url (a url is the address as in http://www.picture.gif) If you do not have a website host, you can upload pictures on places such as photobucket.com. Once you have found the images url, replace the part of the code that says IMAGE URL with, of course, the url.