HTML? er.....

I knew this would happen. No sooner do I get myself set up with a nice little site, on which I can publicise my musings and meanderings, than I feel an urgent need to fiddle with it and make it better. I'm not satisfied with the simple blogger template - I want my own! And I want it to look funky! And I want STUFF in my side bars. So last night I sat down to see if I could work it out - other people do it, so how difficult can it be?

This is where my innate impatience and need to know everything immediately did not come in handy. HTML is a mystery to me. I looked on the template, I looked things up under blogger help, I looked on the internet. I looked for 3 hours, and I still don't know where in my blogger template I should be putting stuff so that it doesn't end up looking like it went through the Star Trek beaming machine and came out with three heads. I'm going to need to work on this...