The following link is very useful for beginner.
Creating your own syntax files @vim wiki
There are some predefined groups for highlight. Type :help group-name to see how they are highlighted, and how is the color they looks like.
And type :help syntax on vim for more information.
There are some other interest links I found as following.
Different syntax highlighting within regions of a file @vim wiki
LogViewer : Comfortable examination of multiple parallel logfiles. <== this is a great vim script(plug in) for log reading, but by now, I think it is not very fit to my needs.