Must read:

A Beginner's Guide to HTML by Marc Andreesen (creator of both Mosaic and Netscape.) http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html "Learn  to Play WITHOUT READING MUSIC!!! (an Internet Parable)" by Charlie Morris http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/columns/parable.html

Nice to read:

PC Magazine's Crash Course in HTML http://www8.zdnet.com/pcweek/eamonn/crash_course.html Barebones Guide to HTML by Kevin Werbach http://werbach.com/barebones/

Resource Lists:

About.com: > Internet/Online > Design > HTML http://html.about.com/ The Web Developer's Virtual Library: HTML http://www.stars.com/Authoring/HTML/ Yahoo: Computers and Internet > Information and Documentation > Data Formats > HTML http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_ Internet/Information_and_Documentation/Data_Formats/HTML/ WebDeveloper.com: HTML http://www.webdeveloper.com/html/ Michele Web http://www.michele-web.com Web Weavers from NASA http://www.nas.nasa.gov/NAS/WebWeavers/ Complete lists of HTML tags, including browser specific tags: Rob Schluter's HTML Tag List http://imc.iit.edu/htmltags/ HTML 4.0 Elements from the Web Design Group http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/alist.html (Can also be downloaded as a Windows Help file) http://www.htmlhelp.com/distribution/html40hlp.zip) Microsoft HTML Elements http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/html/ reference/elements.asp (Complete Microsoft HTML/DHTML/CSS reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/default.asp) Netscape HTML Tag Reference http://developer.netscape.com/library/documentation/ htmlguid/contents.htm WebTV HTML Reference http://developer.webtv.net/authoring/html/ Online Web Authoring periodicals http://imc.iit.edu/webmaster/resources/webpubs.html IIT Web Author's page http://imc.iit.edu/internet.access/IIT_WebAuthor.html