I'm trying to create a custom portal island to serve as an ad. It says that it accepts html but I can't get it to work. All I did was give it a name, cache time = 0, checked "Always Build" and in the body I replaced the code (which I don't understand) and inserted this:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Life of the Mind Conference</title>
</head>

<body>
<a href="http://www.apologetics.com/images/body/main/life_of_the_mind.gif"><img src="http://www.apologetics.com/images/body/main/life_of_the_mind.gif" alt="" name="ltm" width="400" height="225" border="0"></a>
</body>
</html>

I'm sure the code that I replaced had something to do with it. I'm just not a programmer and know basic html. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
-Harry