You don't need all of html. I get by with about half a dozen tags.
text italics
text bold
textblockquote helpfully adds blank lines before and after the quoted block, so that it's harder to read your html because you have to leave the blank lines out
text puts a line through your text-- I don't use istrike much, but it's handy for being a wiseass
Please have a look at this Youtube user account. I immediately thought of this site upon watching a couple of his clips. I am told we have tried here to publish some stuff in audiovisual fomat, but it didn't quite work out. Maybe we should contact this guy, perhaps we could profit from each other's work and experience? I am fairly hopeful that he could use some of the material here, and we could use some of his talent with the medium.
This video, for instance, looks like it was taken right out of this very blog