Beginner's Guide to XHTML (ne HTML)

The brief (but pretty thorough, imho) introduction to basic HTML coding is available online: Ed's Guide to Beginning XHTML. It's a free online tutorial that at least can get you started (if anybody's still interested with all th wysiwyg page builders available...) The thing is, most of the page builders will let you edit the html code so you can include things they don't have buttons for. If you know how. Although it dates from a 2003 workshop for Jacksonville Public Library staff, the coding information is still current (despite some side references to Netscape browsers and IE6).
https://sites.google.com/site/edswebref/

• • Beginner's Guide to HTML

• Basic Tags for Text Markup
• Character Entity References
• Core Attributes
• CSS Reference
• HTML Root Elements
• Link and Image Tags
• Tables & Lists
• Web Page Template