How do you get rid of the underline effect from my text links?

Use a bit of CSS coding.

a {text-decoration: none;}

This states that any reference within the A (link) area will not contain any extra decorations (which means underline). The above example will affect all of the text links on the page. If you want only a specific link to behave like this, just add the style to the single tag like so :

<a href="page.html" style="text-decoration:none;">

What about the border around linked images?

You can either enter the border="0" to each of your img tags or you can apply a bit of CSS for them as well.

img {border: 0px;}

There may be some cases when you have to get a bit tough on the coding, so here it is a bit more solidly stating any images within a link area :

a img {text-decoration: none; border: 0px;}