HTML sites

As you go through this website, you will find plenty of useful links to help you learn more about each area. But the sites below cover HTML and web development in general.

Introductions

There are more beginners' guides to HTML on the Internet than anyone could possibly read. Almost all have flaws or inaccuracies, but usually not very serious ones. That's all part of the fun. Here are some of the better ones.

Learn to Program HTML in 21 Minutes:
http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/html.html

Part of Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing:
http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/index.html
An excellent introduction to the web and HTML written by someone who knows. It's funny, non-technical without being technophobic and cuts through the hype you will see almost everywhere else on the web. Wordy though.

General HTML resources

These sites have lots of tutorials and guides on writing HTML and building websites
WebReference.com:
http://www.webreference.com/

Hotwired - from the makers of Wired magazine:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/authoring/html_basics

Directories of HTML resources

Still hungry for more? There are thousands more sites like these; try looking through one of the search engines or directories for more links:
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/
Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Authoring/

Guides for young people

Sites aimed specifically at a younger audience. You might find them patronising or you might just think they're not as boring as all those other sites.
Lisa explains:
http://www.lissaexplains.com/
Web Genies:
http://www.webgenies.co.uk/

HTML References

So you know what the web's all about and you want to get your hands dirty. You need a guide to the nuts and bolts of HTML. These sites cover a broad range of topics, so they'll give you a good idea of what this HTML stuff is all about.

NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML:
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
From the people that brought you the web as we know it today.

Hotwired have several useful reference guides:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/html_cheatsheet/
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/color_codes/
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/browser_chart/