HTML Basic Guide:
Most tags that affect text have both an opening before the text and a closing after the text.

Text:
   hard space (HTML doesn't acknowledge multiple spaces.  You have to use this to have more than 1 in a row)
<B> bold </B>
<I> italics </I>
<U> underline </U>
<BR> line break
<HR> a horizontal rule or bar across the page
<CENTER> center text </CENTER>
<P> new paragraph (like <BR> but it makes sure there is 1 and only 1 blank line)
In a <P> you can also specify how you want the text of that paragraph aligned between LEFT, CENTER or RIGHT. for example:
<P ALIGN="CENTER"> Text of the paragraph goes here. </P>

Fonts:

<FONT FACE="f" SIZE="s" COLOR="c"> Text you want to affect </FONT>
"f" is the name of a font such as: Arial, Times New Roman, Verdana, Tahoma, Comic Sans MS & Courier New
"s" is the size of the text "1" being the smallest and "7" being the largest.
"c" is the color. You can name the color "red", "blue", "green" or "darkred", "lightred" etc.

Images:

<img src="url" width="x" height="y" border="b">
url - This is the url to the path of the file such as: http://www.yahoo.com/img/tree.gif
x - You should specify the width of the image here
y - You should specify the height of the image here
b - You can the border turn on or off

Links:
In order to link either text or a picture, you would insert the "anchor" tags around the object you wish to link like this: <a href="url"> text or graphic </a>
Replace "url" with the link you wish the user to be redirected to.
If you want the link to open in a new window use the target="_blank" attribute. Like this:
<a href="url" target="_blank"> text or graphic here </a>
Example: <a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Click here to go to Yahoo.com</a>

Less common examples:
<STRIKE> strike through text such as a price </STRIKE>
<SUB> subscript </SUB>
<SUP> superscript </SUP>
<PRE> preformatted text </PRE> Looks like a typewriter typed it