This page contains some links to sites that have been helpful to me during my struggle to pick up the basics of web design. If you feel inspired to make your own site, you might want to click on a few of them and see where they take you.

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• Maricopa Center For Learning and Instruction
  Describes itself as a tutorial for creating web pages. Really aimed at people writing for academic purposes but I found it immensely helpful too. Lessons are built around an imaginary site designed to present "volcanology" to undergraduate students. A friend in Japan put me on to this site and I found it really helpful.
  
  
• About.Com
  Pages about HTML and XML. Offers shorter, easily digestible tutorials on various aspects of web authoring
  
  
• Webmonkey
  Smart-looking site that offers a wide range of helpful stuff. Has sections for "beginners" / "builders" / and "masters".
  
  
• HowStuffWorks.com
  General science and technology site that covers all kinds of technology. Has a comprehensive computers and internet section including this crash course in HTML for the uninitiated
  
  
• Web Style Guide
  Site that offers advice on design issues, layout and interface design for web pages.
  
  
• Webopedia
  An online glossary of the imense amount of jargon in the web-writing world and the seemingly endless array of acronyms
  
  
• All HTML.com
  Described as the "Softer and easier path to learning HTML". Offers a clearly labelled series of lessons, going from basic structure tags up to and including tables.
  
  
• Bare Bones Guide to HTML
  This site claims to list every official HTML tag in common usage and is available in 21 languages.
  
  
• HTML Tutorials for the complete Idiot
  Offers a series of tutorials including horizontal lines, making lists, making tables, links, background colors, adding images...
  
  
• Jennie Explains It All
  This site was built by a fourteen-year-old (genius) who claims to have been into Webpages since she was twelve! Includes "the basics" and links, marquees, forms, DHTML, Java, Frames and more. When I was struggling to grasp the basics a few months ago, I stumbled on this site and was both inspired and helped.
  
  
• Macromedia Dreamweaver
  Dreamweaver 8 is the industry-leading web development tool, enabling users to efficiently design, develop and maintain standards-based websites and applications.
  
  
• Microsoft FrontPage
  Front Page is the Microsoft web site authoring tool that should feel reasonably familiar and intuitive to use for anybody who's mastered MS Word..
  
  

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