Golden Silk Statue.

OK, so I have been trying for over an hour and a half to make a button blog and a welcome picture and make some changes through my blog. But even though I tried to follow instructions perfectly, nothing came of it. At least I saved my stuff on to the computer. I swear I know nothing about html, url, http or whatever. I am good at following instructions but these things are hardddd. I also want to change my layout, make a nice header. But I figured baby steps so I started with a button to add to my page and so far nothing, nadda, zilch!! I got a headache from the process. Will anyone help me, or give me links to some easy tutorials they have tried themselves, on how to...