Gair: you are absolutly right
(Not knowing the syntax + Nice colors) != HTML Webpage Designed.
No matter hwo you cut the cake, you need to learn html to be able to do anything with it. Wether its going to places like
http://www.w3schools.com/html/ or reading a book on it, you still need to have an understanding of the language. Believe it or not, there are also standards for it too. For instance, form tags must be outside of tables. If they aren't, you get a hard space at the bottom of your last form object in the cell.
Anyways, you might want to chekc out that website. It gives some good examples of code, and explains how it works.