Reference | Basic | Advanced

http://werbach.com/barebones/barebone.html
This site has structural definitions of all the possible HTML tags and hints to where each tag should be placed, etc. It is also available in several languages. It's an excellent resource, but not the place to learn the basics.

http://www.teleport.com/~danal/Pages/making.html
This site walks you through creating a web page from the very beginning. It even contains brief instructions on establishing a public_html file in UNIX.

http://www.stanford.edu/~ttorres/Internet/toc.html
This site is very simple and is basically a list of what goes in each portion of the html file with some explanation. The direct link to making web pages is http://www.stanford.edu/~ttorres/Internet/www.html#authoring

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5969/index.html
I particularly like this series of pages because it divides learning html into several lessons by first displaying the tags within a table, and then showing samples of what the code should look like.

http://snowwhite.it.brighton.ac.uk/%7Emas/mas/courses/html/html1.html
This site offers an interactive introduction to HTML and CGI scripts. I particularly like the interactive feature, which allows you to experiment with html tags and immediately see their effects.

http://htmlprimer.com/lesson1.shtml
For people who like a lot of clear description of the tags, code, etc. this site is excellent and begins with pure description organized into separate lessons. It may be a little annoying for those who are ready to jump right in.

http://www.w3-tech.com/crash/HTMLMenu.html
Despite the somewhat distracting background, I like the way this tutorial is organized because it divides all of its info. into a table making it very easy to see whether or not it has what you are looking for. On second thought, even if you select the appropriate link from the table, the info. it gives you may not be exactly what you are looking for. However, it may work for some.

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Campus/1924/beginning.html
This site has a free beginning web page that you can copy, and then tips to modifying and personalizing it. On the main page: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Campus/1924/index.html there is a table with links explaining the various elements of the page and other tips, including a link to a brief tutorial of WS_FTP.

http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/html
This page has a little too much text for me and the layout isn't spectacular, but the explanation of each tag and instruction of how to use it is very clear.

http://www.stars.com/WebRef/Help/Begin.html.
The Beginner's Page is a more informative web development guide for beginner. From here, you can navigate to a page of resources on HTML at http://www.stars.com/Authoring/HTML/

http://www.geocities.com/Baja/4361/htmlb.html
This is one of the best sites I have seen. It looks nice, is well organized, the text is easy to understand, but there isn't too much of it, and it has examples of what things should look like on your browser.

http://www.cwru.edu/help/introHTML/toc.html
Although this page is not pretty, I like the layout of the tutorial. It has a brief introduction followed by a series of chapters, and between each chapter there is a short quiz on the material. It also has images which illustrate the appropriate order of the tags.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/4977/index.html
This tutorial is pretty basic, but clear. It also has a link on one of the pages to a pretty complete list of HTML commands.

http://www.doghause.com/top15.html
This page has a description of the top 15 mistakes that new web designers often make. It may be useful to keep some of these things in mind when designing pages.

http://www.hypernews.org/HyperNews/get/www/html/guides.html
This is a great index to just about everything you want to know about HTML and the web. It contains list of both beginning and advanced tutorials, info. about style, editors, browsers, etc. It seems like a good starting point for answering questions.

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/8693/reference1.html
The information has links to tutorials related to just about everything related to computers including links to about twenty HTML tutorials.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9272/webomat.htm
This is another brief index to HTML tutorials and guides.

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http://www.markradcliffe.co.uk/html/advancedhtml.htm
Perhaps I simply don't understand this site as it is for advanced html. It has info. about frames, meta tags, javascript and other info. which may be useful to those who use it.

http://www.advhtml.com/advanced.html
This site does not seem particularly advanced, but it does contain useful info. about java, frames, tables and forms. It also has links to info. for beginners, free tools and editors, and there is also a link to instructions for uploading using WS_FTP:
http://www.advhtml.com/show.html

http://www.freewebpromotion.com/harvillo/
I have always found this page useful for info. about tags, forms, tables, etc. I like the fact that the code or tags are in blue or red while the text explaining them is in black making it easier to decipher.

http://www.freewebpromotion.com/harvillo/
I guess we could point to this page as an example of a poorly designed, annoying tutorial. The interminable scrolling is enough to drive you crazy.

http://www.htmlwizards.com/htmltags/
I like this page. It has links to tutorials, info. about javascripts and an alphabetized library of HTML tags.

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Orchard/5212/
I like this site because although it is for advanced HTML designers it still talks you through the meaning of each tag and how to use it. It also has info. about two new technologies, DHTML and CSS.

http://www.sirius.com/~paulus/html30.html
Although some of the links on this site do not work properly it may be useful because it has a lot of information ranging from beginning to advanced tutorials, design guides, and internet tools. The sites its list as cool web design are not worth the time.

http://rvcc2.raritanval.edu/~bnebeker/WPD/
This page is a great resource for just about everything regarding html and the internet. There is a link on this page to http://www.htmlgoodies.com/ which is a great site with a ton of information and tips. The HTML tutorial is particularly nice because the links to info. are provided in the form of questions regarded what the user is attempting to do.

http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/
This page is for advanced web designers, thus it has a javascript tutorial, design tips, and info. about using Multimedia, yet it also has an archive of HTML tutorials and references for begginers and advanced designers.

http://www2.utep.edu/~kross/tutorial/
Although this site is clustered amongst a lot of sites for advanced HTML, its tutorial includes a lot of information for basic HTML designers including basic rules about tags, and a lot of info. about using and manipulating images.

http://library.advanced.org/16728/netscape/index.html
This is one of the nicest of the advanced sites I've seen thus far. As with almost all the other sites it contains an HTML tutorial, but it also has separate links for java, advanced HTML and something called Power HTML of which I was not aware.

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