Actually, you want an HTML primer, not HTTP, unless you're looking how to properly form a tcp get call
Here's some common tags:
<p> - paragraph break
<br> - line break
<i>
text</i> - italics - note the closing tag - that's important
<b>
text</b> - bold (again with the closing tag)
<img src=http://link.to.your.image.jpg> image tag
And here's a cheat sheet:
http://www.psacake.com/web/dy.asp