Any Idea's How?

hmm i will go more into detail.
the effect i was wanting i have seen on the new version of invision board what i basically want is like the tag exsample below

<a href="usercp.php?s=$session[sessionhash]"><img
src="images/top_profile.gif" alt="Here you can view your 
subscribed threads, work with private messages and edit your 
profile and preferences" border="0"></a>

now i know
that is for an image but for text in the html code would be
something like

a href="something.html" title= the date 
and time this was posted"

does this clear anything up or
does this still require hacing php and not just moding the
template??

edit: guess i could have went to the invisionboard page and gotten a screeny of what i ment lol here hope this helps too