havesomeseichel-
Don’t give up.
It can be very frustrating to spend lots of time formatting something and then not have it come out properly, but as many posters (including moi) experienced on the HTML thread, eventually perseverance pays off.
It looks to me like the problem with your post is that your spacing was lost.
I suggest:
1) Start with something simple (to avoid the frustration of lots of lost time on failed attempts).
2) Don’t forget to prefix your art with a backtick (the character below the tilde [~] on the upper-left of your keyboard that looks like an apostrophe). This will preserve spaces between characters, and force the use of a fixed-width font.
We probably should start a second HTML thread – any volunteers?