The links on this page are sources for more information on creating websites. HTML can get complicated, and there is so much that we could not put on our website. If you run into problems getting the look that you want, search through these sites and see if you can find it.
On that note, the most useful thing you can do when you're trying to learn how to make websites is to look at websites that are already out there. Try desecting someone else's code. Look for a site with an effect similar to the effect that you want and see how they write their code.
How do you do this? View Source. (File>View Source or View>View Source, depending on your browser.) And if you have a Mac, Xyle Scope is a really neat program that can deconstruct any website's HTML and CSS.