Cratercaster, try to get your text between the 2 parts of a set, so you have the colour tag before and the colour/ tag after your text. If you add more tags, place them inside (or outside) the first set, but always keep the text in the middle.
Without the brackets your text would look like this, color=Red font=Verdana I feel pathetic /font /color
With the brackets it works and looks like this:
Still pretty simple. If you want to see what others have done, hit the quote button in their message.
Willeke