Look up the use of div tags; this will help you easily accomplish what you're trying to do (if you're trying to simply edit a page and not the entire Wordpress theme.)

There are two questions here: 1) How to warp text around an image, with the image floated left and 2) How to format your home page.

As for the first question, as Matt suggested, you just need to use a Div. Think of a div as a section or even like a table cell. If you're going to drop an image into a wordpress post and warp text around it using plain old html, you would do this:

1) Make sure you're in the "HTML" tab of your WordPress post editor.
2) In the content area, you would use this:

<div style="float: left;"><IMG SRC="yourpic.jpg">Here is your paragraph of text, blah blah blah.</div>

But I'm not sure why you would need to do this. WP has built in image handling that should make this nearly automatic.

When you insert your image, WP should give you the option to align left, right or center. Wrapped text should happen automatically.

Also - if you click on an already inserted image, and then click "Advanced Options" you can add horizontal or vertical margins, which will create space between the image and your text.

As for #2 - this is a function of your theme. Either choose a theme that is already formatted this way on the home page, or create a custom home.php template for your blog.

Hope this helps!

Hello Sarah,

I just finished from testing this code that I created and is working very well. Just open new post and click on "HTML" and paste this code. after that click on "Visual" and change the images and the text as you like.

I hope this help you, if you need any extra info please let me know here or pm me.

I hope this help
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<table width="20%" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="76"><img src="images/image1.jpg" alt="" width="72" height="48" border="0" /></td>
<td>Edit the text here</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table width="20%" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="76"><img src="images/image1.jpg" alt="" width="72" height="48" border="0" /></td>
<td>Edit the text here</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table width="20%" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="76"><img src="images/image1.jpg" alt="" width="72" height="48" border="0" /></td>
<td>Edit the text here</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table width="20%" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="76"><img src="images/image1.jpg" alt="" width="72" height="48" border="0" /></td>
<td>Edit the text here</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table width="20%" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="76"><img src="images/image1.jpg" alt="" width="72" height="48" border="0" /></td>
<td>Edit the text here</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

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Why are talking about HTML and div's this is wordpress, it has image aligning built in. Am I missing something here?

when you insert an image in you post or page just select 'align to the left' and thats probably it.