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First we have the two pdf documents that I talked about in class - a very brief background to the makeup of the Internet and also an introduction to the concept behind HTML.
There are plenty of sites and books out there explaining ar more about these if you're interested - www.webmonkey.com is a good place to start and although it is not being updated as much as it was it still has plenty of tutorials and resources to download or study online. There are good introductions to Director and Flash on the site as well as other applications that may prove useful notably FireWorks or GifBuilder.
There are already some books and sites listed on other parts of cunninglingo so look through - the books are all on the inspire page and there are web resources listed on the DreamWeaver page.
Here are links to some of those demonstration files showing some of the basic HTML tags - make a habit of viewing the source code at the same time as you view the files in a browser, either in a word processor or by using the view source command in the browser.
Basic1.html and basic2.html just show the basic use of bold <b> and italic <i> tags - basic2.html is shown just for you to see that web browsers ignore carriage returns and extra spaces in html.
To do that properly look at linebreak.html to see how that can be achieved.
The files left.html centred.html right.html and text.html all show how to use html tags to format text. centredbig.html shows the use of a font size html tag.
To include an image you can use a simple tag like the one in image.html although it is best to include details of the image's dimensions, don't worry about that just for now.
You can also use an image as a backgound tile, such as in background.html
To check out how to use coloured backrounds or text in web pages look at yuck.html or yucktext.html