I toyed with the idea of writing a nice HTML tutorial, but there are just so many good ones out there on the internet for free that it would be a bit silly to write a new one. Instead, I have gone through each of these tutorials below, and they are all very good and thorough, and EASY.

No matter what method of building your own website you use, it will be extremely helpful to know some HTML. Even if you are using a website builder or template or paying someone to create your site, you can use your html knowledge to tweak, debug, or add title and metatags (which will be helpful with Search Engine Optimization). Heck, how can you spy on your competitors website code if you don't know just a bit of HTML tag - (Now you are curious to know how to spy on your competitor's website code -- in your browser, in the toolbar, click on 'View' then click on 'Source'). no matter what method of building your website you choose, it is good to learn the basics of html so that you can do some minor customization when necessary, instead of depending on someone else to do it for you.

HTML Tutorials

HTML Authoring Basics - step by step tutorial

Free Website Building Tutorials - all free huge resource of website tutorials

Free HTLM Tutorials

Practice your html skills here: HTML Practice

Adding Metatags - A quick concise and to the point tutorial about metatags, how to add them and what they mean.