Best book or Source for Learning HTML

[doctordun]

What is the best book or source for leaning HTML and are there any online "free" resources for this?

I'm a 'very' new newbie to this.

[kevinpate]

Dunno as to specific books, but you could get a great deal of milage out of clicking the link for Library for this particular forum, and then reading still more elsewhere here at webmasterworld.

Gotta warn ya though, the place can be a tad addictive.

[zooloo]

w3schools.com is pretty useful... and free

For books, I rate highly the Visual Quickstart (Google that) series of books. Wide range of topics too.

zoo

[rjohara]

If you're completely new to the concepts behing HTML, it's often good to go straight to the source: the W3C. Dave Raggett wrote a brief intro to the concepts of HTML here:

[w3.org...]

[kodaks]

HTML Goodies (google it) is also a site that I would recommend you look into. Good luck!

[doctordun]

Thanks everyone. I'm glad I found this forum. The replies to my question came much faster than I expected.

[PumpkinHead]

Type "Webmonkey" into Google. All you'll need for months to come and their tutorials are kinda fun.

Good luck, keep at it :)

[Gene]

"Web Design in a Nutshell" by Jennifer Niederst is an excellent book published by O'Reilly.

A lot of information for beginner as well as seasoned webmasters.

What I love about this book is how incredibly well organized it is. You can read it as a textbook, AND it is also structured in a format that makes it well suited as an HTML reference. I can quickly find an appropriate HTML tag along with all of its attributes by perusing the beginning of any chapter of the book. The rest of the chapter then explains and illustrates how to use the tags that were listed in the beginning of the chapter.

It's a great companion on my desk when I'm coding HTML pages.

~Gene

P.S. If you're an "Absolute Newbie," then you might wish to start with another book by the same author entitled "Learning Web Design," also published by O'Reilly.