Getting started with HTML in general

If you do not previously know HTML in any version, you should first read some introduction to the basic concepts and ideas behind HTML. You might consider the following options:

• 10 Minute Guide to HTML by Dave Raggett, available at http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/
• HTML Tutorial -- Writing Web Pages by Michael Hamm at http://www.math.wustl.edu/~msh210/html.html
• HTML for the English Major: A Short Tutorial by Amittai Avram, at http://www.amittai.com/prose/tutorial.html
• HTML with Style Tutorials by Stephanos Piperoglou at http://www.webreference.com/html/tutorials/
• Getting Started with HTML, by me, available at http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html-primer.html
• Introduction to HTML at http://www.cwru.edu/help/introHTML/
• NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML, a "classical" introduction. Many people have found it very readable. The original version described HTML 2.0, but it has later been extended. It is available at http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
• Yahoo!'s computer area, http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/, which contains, in its World Wide Web section, a list of guides and tutorials on HTML (in several languages, quality varying a lot).

Please notice that most introductory texts on HTML do not present the language exactly as defined by HTML 3.2; some of them might differ a lot from it.