I've seen many FrontPage-Based Websites, I kind of have a few questions that came up to my mind while checking the websites.

I kind of feel like VBForums is more accurate to post rather than most HTML forums, primarily because of the age of VBForums.

1. How to stretch the inserted image of an
HTML Code:
background=""
attribute, the left blue part on seemingly default style seems to be stretched down without any CSS supporting it,

2. Is there a way to mark text's background? <font> tag can change the foreground color, I had the idea of a single cell table to do it but it seems to create a newline

3. How to replace the bullet points <ul> use with an image? seen websites do it.

4. Is there a way to set Tahoma to exactly 8px? Setting using
HTML Code:
<font size="1">
makes it smaller than 8px, and size 2 makes it larger than 8px