Creating a new post

To create this new post, from my blog listing, I clicked on the Blogger icon in the upper left and logged in. Then I was able to access my account and post this message.

But I am curoius why my links that I edited aren't now showing up on the blog. They did earlier after I edited the code. And there surely is an easier way to add links to your blog than search for, manually adding the code, and then republishing the blog. What if I didn't know HTML?