I did what attagirl did.
I copied the source code from a webpage and played with it to try and figure out what it does, did and means. I think this will help in building on any of the tutorial/school sites mentioned above.
Plus I went to:
http://www.web-source.net/html_codes_chart.htm to understand all the little code meanings so I could use them myself.
I'm no expert, but I can sure customize a page to fit what I want to do myself.