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HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language, and is similar to SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language. An HTML file consist of text, which is displayed to the reader of your HTML document, and tags, which tell the browser how to format that text.
Any beginning HTML author should read
Once you learn the basics, concentrate on style, layout, and appearance. HTML should be good from both an internal structure standpoint, and how it appears on the viewer's browser. The finer points of HTML style can be found in
Documents can be enhanced by judicious use of images, graphics, and special characters. Finding nice images can be difficult; you might want to look at some image collections I've found useful. Two different lists of special characters are available, listed by ASCII code and by HTML encoding.
One of the trickier parts of documents is creating forms. Looking at this forms example might make things a bit easier.
Writing HTML can be a bit of a pain, but the having appropriate mode set in Emacs can help a lot. Try the enhanced html-helper-mode to make things easier.
If you are trying to manage your own HTTP server, you'll want to read about administering the HTTP server. For the complete details, check out the NCSA httpd Overview. Once you've got the server running, you can use the getstats or wwwstats programs to track usage and accesses.
A final bit of advice: the best way to learn is to copy someone else. If you see a page that has something nifty that you'd like to do, select the View Source option from the File menu of your browser. You'll see exactly how that person did the trick, and you can try it for yourself!