Email signature links not linking

Question

Hello. After unsuccessfuly trying to import my signatures from my MBP running Mountain Lion to my new iMac running Mavericks, I tried to create new signatures from scratch. I followed the basic guidelines: created a dummy signature, edited it (using TextEdit) so that it looks all nice in HTML, and then attaching it to my account. When I send it to a test account, I see the hyperlinked text as blue, but it doesn't actually link to the URL - it's as if the href links are dead. Here's the signature doc:
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/html;
          charset=us-ascii
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.2 \(1874\))
<br>
<br>
<br>
<span style=“color: #166dab;”><strong>Michael Borger</strong></span><br>
Oahu Home Buyers, Inc.<br>
<a href=“http://www.oahuhomebuyers.com” target=“_blank”>oahuhomebuyers.com</a><br>
We Buy Homes on Oahu, HI<br>
[phone]<br>
<a href=“http://facebook.com/oahuhomebuyers” target=“_blank”>Facebook</a> | <a href=“http://twitter.com/oahuhomebuyers” target=“_blank”>Twitter</a> | <a href=“http://plus.google.com/+Oahuhomebuyers808” target=“_blank”>Google+</a>
The signature looks correct when received -- the links just don't go anywhere, i.e. the browser isn't even called, although when the cursor goes over the text, the pointer changes to the hand. I tried locking the .mailsignature file as well as I've seen that advice in a few place, but no effect.

Answer 1

Wyodor,
1. It may be messy or it may not. It seems that is opinion as opposed to fact. I am not a designer. I am a guy who has iLife and so I have iWeb & a need. Mac makes it easy for those of us with no designer experience to feel we can do something. It may not be up to designer's standards but it's what we have.
2. Why two email addresses? One is direct link and the other is in case someone would rather copy & paste the address in case they are at another computer and do not wish to use the default email of the host computer. I don't know. It was a suggestion I took. Doesn't seem harmful to me...
3. Out of focus? Where? There are no options to focus anything and all it is is typed words. I cannot see how it is out of focus.
4. I have looked and looked again at these pages. Code means nothing to me. So all I can do is look at the page itself and try to figure things out. What is frustrating is that things look different depending on which computer and which browser I view them on. While working here on iWeb I see certain results but I don't have several computers and every browser available all the time. So how am I supposed to fix anything when it looks fine when I working on it? I just discovered yesterday while at a friend's house that on IE the site had two hit counters I cannot see on Camino, Safari or Firefox. I even thought I had removed the hit counters mostly because I couldn't see them when I put them on.
5. I have used a font that may not be recognized. But it is recognized on the other pages. My problem is mostly - but not entirely - with this page. All I see is that even where the pages are similar, they read differently. I have nothing blocking these links any more than I might on other pages and yet this one page will not link.
Thanks for your help, though. As I said, the code here is Greek to me. So I cannt use it or even recognize if its helpful...