How to change the color of text:
<FONT COLOR=BLUE>The text you want to be blue goes here</FONT>

How to change the font style:
<FONT FACE=Arial>The text you want to be Arial here</FONT>

How to change the size of text/fonts (size values are 1 through 7, with 7 being the largest and size 3 is the default value):
<FONT SIZE=5>Text to be size 5 here</FONT>

You can put them all together:
<FONT COLOR=BLUE FACE=ARIAL SIZE=5>Text to be blue Arial, size 5 here</FONT>

Go to the practice board and try some.

How to make text/font bold face:
<B>Text to be bold face here</B>

How to make text/fonts in italics:
<I>Text to be in italics here</I>

How to make text/fonts bold and italic:
<B><I>Text to be bold and italic here</I></B>

You can put them all together with the above examples:
<FONT COLOR=BLUE FACE=ARIAL SIZE=5><B><I>Text to be all these things here</I></B></FONT>

Go to the practice board and try some.

How to display an image:
<IMG SRC=HTTP://URL OF IMAGE FILE HERE>

The URL, Uniform Resource Locator, is the internet "address" of your image file. Images must be uploaded to the internet and have a URL, to be displayed on the internet. There are many places that allow you to upload and store files to be used on the internet.

An example:
<IMG SRC=HTTP://milleneum.virtualave.net/images/cat6.gif>  

Go to the practice board and try some.

Note: URL's are case sensitive. If the cat image was named CAT6.GIF or cat6.GIF then it would have to be typed in that way to make it display. The same is true for any other part of the URL except for HTTP. You could type HTTP in lower (http) or upper case (HTTP). The same is true for any of the other examples. FONT could be typed as font. If there are spaces in the name of a font, like Comic Sans MS, then you must frame the name of the font with quotations:
<FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">.

Thats enough to get you off to a quick start. If you want to learn more about HTML read the other tutorials.