I was going to begin this page with my personal history of learning to use HTML, but as ...thrilling as that would probably be to you, it seemed only fair to give it its own page instead. (Seriously, you might find it worth a look. It's not just "October 27th--boldly made my first stride into the world of hexadecimal code!" Besides giving a brief history of my rather limited HTML career, it also gives my rationale [apologia?] for the simple style of The Cultivated Acre.)
My two initial pillars of support as I started to learn about HTML were the NCSA's A Beginner's Guide to HTML, where I learned the fundamentals of page creation, and Doctor HTML, which I used to verify my code. As I corrected my (many!) errors, I slowly learned the ropes of basic HTML.
In addition to the above, the following sites should provide something for both the fledgling and the experienced HTML author. Carl Tashian answers the question How do they do that with HTML?. The HTML page of Kat's Eclectic Korner is in itself an eclectic page, not just touching on HTML but on many tangential areas of interest as well. Vincent Flanders offers precautionary tales of HTML run amuck on his site, Web Pages That Suck. If your site doesn't pass muster, help is at hand. Jeff Glover offers tips to turn your site from Sucky to Savvy. Also, if you're looking to make your site more 'appetizing', Sun Microsystems Guide to Web Style provides "a cookbook for helping people create better web pages." One other essential guide that I recommend is the Yale Style Manual.
The goal of The Web Design Group is "making the Web accessible to all," and they deliver on that with information on many HTML topics. The Bandwidth Conservation Society is "working to reduce bandwidth while not abandoning the goal of a pleasing page." The objective of projectcool media is "to create the best place on the web to continue advancing the webmaker skillset." Index Dot HTML advertises itself as 'the' advanced HTML reference. Last but absolutely not least is dtool's HTML page, a gateway not only to all manner of basic and advanced HTML information but also to a wide variety of other computer topics.
"Something like living occurs, a movement
Out of the dream into its codification."
--John Ashbery
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