Adam Bell (our article editor) is, himself, a tireless writer for Macscripter. He’s written some great tutorials that should help you when you get stuck!
Tutorial: A Beginner’s Introduction to Applescript Libraries
Dates & Times in Applescripts
Tutorial for Using AppleScript’s Text Item Delimiters
A Tutorial on Parsing HTML from a Web Site using AppleScript’s Text Item Delimiters (replaces ‘Tutorial on Applescripting for Your Local Weather’)