Promo link wont work

Can anyone see a problem with this code?

<strong><<span style="font-weight: normal;">a</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">href="</span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">http://ireland.forumotion.com"><img</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">src</span>=<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">"</span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">https://2img.net/h/i9.photobucket.com/albums/a95/lordsamson/addvert-but.jpg</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">" alt="</span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">The forums of Ireland</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">" width="88" height="31"</span>><<span style="font-weight: normal;">/a</span>></strong>

How about you learn HTML, I can see over 100 individual problems in this small area of text...

Code:

<a href=http://ireland.forumotion.com><img src=http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a95/lordsamson/addvert-but.jpg alt="The forums of Ireland" width=88 height=31></a>

You have code inside code... did you teach yourself html?