I would like to create a simple Blog with Joomla without any extra extension.

[Klaus Fuchs]

first time I would like to create a simple Blog with Joomla without any extra extension. Fail:-(
How can I format intro Text? What ever I do it shows the first n characters without any formatting, how can this be done? anybody knows how?

[Alison Meeks]

Joomla works great for a simple blog.