New IT Diploma for 14-19 year olds

Take a look at the item on the New Statesman website item on a future IT diploma for young people. Here we are all merrily blogging away and we haven't the faintest idea how the html, style sheets, templates etc. are working away behind the scenes. I just had about four attempts to make the words "IT diploma" appear as a link and I'm using the compose mode which is supposed to make all this techy stuff easy. As you can see I'm also having trouble getting my text and images where I want them to be, usually resorting to hitting the space bar a few hundred times. Now what I need is a back to basics course for old has-beens like me.