im having trouble with them on this (http://www.sportsaccess.org) page heres the code i used:

<a href="#july">Event Calendar</a>

wats wrong with it?

I dont see where you used the code on that page, but did you put the second part of the code where you want the link to go?
Do you have this?: <A name="july"></A>



http://www.lissaexplains.com/html4.shtml#anchor

change this...
<h4><font color="green">July</font></h4>

to this...
<a name="july"><h4><font color="green">July</font></h4></a>