http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1418010/posts
Here's a place to see what happens and the language. Just follow her directions and you can look really good! I just took it a step further, pulled out come commands and made my own in order to post graphics. Nothing over 600 width is to be posted here. You can size it down and the height adjusts automatically on FR.
The twinkly things were a gif I copied and pssted inside a framing table using red as a background color.
http://www.theill.com/hfc/
Here's another fun thing.
http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/chap08.shtml
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1213319/posts
Thanks for the links book marked.