Web Building Resources

The following links are some of the places where I have found particularly helpful teaching sites or useful resources for those interested in HTML and web design.

The World Wide Web Consortium is the body responsible for establishing web standards. They have a very comprehensive range of easy-to-follow tutorials on a wide range of web-related topics - an excellent place to start for those wanting to lean new skills:
The World Wide Web Consortium Online Web Tutorials

Webmonkey is another site full of tutorials, advice, resources and information for web builders of all levels. It is not quite as clearly laid out as the W3 site, but some of its tutorials are a bit more in-depth:
Web Resources from Beginners to Advanced

If you are looking for a good HTML editor then try "Textpad", an easy-to-use but powerful text editor. Simple to use and some great features for HTML authoring and other programming functions which require a plain text format (this web site was produced using Textpad 4.5):
Textpad text editor

If you plan to build larger and more sophisticated sites (or you just hate the "hand-made approach"), then you are going to need a web page editor. You can download a copy of Microsoft's FrontPage Express by clicking on the following link:
FrontPage Express

A short tutorial for FrontPage can be found here:
A FrontPage Tutorial

For completeness I have included a link to the Netscape alternative to Frontage. A couple of words of caution though - firstly this is a BIG download since Composer is an integral part of Netscape's browser. Secondly, the current version (version 6.2 at the time of writing) is a bit of resource hog - slow processors and low memory machines need not apply:
Netscape Navigator and Composer

I came across this site while looking for resources for my own site. You will find gifs, icons, backgrounds and plenty of other resources to enhance your site:
Animated Gifs and other Web Building Resources

Lastly the red bar buttons on the pages of this site are from "Andy's Free Buttons" web site and I would like to include this link to his site as an acknowledgement for using his work:
Andy's Free Buttons