Playing around with the Blog

Well, I am trying to figure out this HTML thing, I have always wanted to learn it. So, I am playing around with the blog, adding a background from House of Three at http://www.houseof3.com/blog-couture.html. When I did this, I had to change the template on the blogger site, it changed the look and removed some of my links, etc. So now I am trying to figure out how to put them back! I lost my poem and it added my profile at the top of the blog, which is not where I want it. So... more to come. I will keep playing with it until I am happy with it. Hopefully I will be able to make it work.