Getting started with HTML and CSS

There is a ton of tutorial information online about HTML and CSS. Here are a few suggested starting points.

• Obvious: search for "CSS [concept I'm looking for]" or "HTML 5 [concept]"
• Mozilla Developer Network (MDN): very good tutorials, references, etc.
• w3schools.com: very good tutorials, references, etc.
• w3fools.com: used to say that w3schools was terrible and that everybody should use MDN instead, but now think w3schools has gotten better. Sounds like some public pressure may have helped w3schools fix its problems.
• CSS tutorial from MDN
• CSS tutorial from w3schools.com
• Colors in CSS from w3schools.com
• TheWorld Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the official standards organization for lots of web-related protocols, languages, and tools, including HTML and CSS.
• Watch out: W3C != w3schools.com. There's no formal connection between these two organizations, and sometimes the W3C people can be a little bit cranky about the confusion.

Some introductory HTML/CSS examples

• example0.html: The minimal file structure for an HTML page. No CSS.
• example1.html: A demo of a bunch of basic HTML tags, including paragraphs, links, headings, images, lists, etc. No CSS.
• example2.html: Introduction to CSS styles applied to tags and to classes. Depends on example2.css.
• example3.html: Longer introduction to CSS styles, with some exercise suggestions. Depends on example3.css.
• example4.html: my little "navigation bar" example, showing how styling can make substantial presentation changes to content like an unordered list of links. Depends on example4.css.
• example5.html: layout with CSS. Depends on example5.css.