Easy to Follow Tutorials to Help You Learn to Design Websites

While there are a lot of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors out there I really do believe it's better to learn how to write at least the basic html for yourself. Add a bit of css knowledge and I can guarantee that with a very little effort your pages will look better than what the other style of editors will spit out. It's handy to know a bit of HTML even if you do decide to design with WYSIWYG editors so you can add, change and remove items on your sites with ease. Trust me, if I can learn to create webpages, anyone can!

These free web design tutorials start you out with a basic knowledge and progress up to the more advance scripting languages. Go at your own page and you'll be an ace designer in no time!

W3Schools
W3Schools has a very wide range of web design tutorials starting at the very basic HTML, CSS and Javascript and can take you right through to advanced server side scripting. The lessons are well thought out and very easy to follow and follow a natural progression to make learning easy even for the beginner. If you're already more advanced it's very easy to find the lessons you might want, including SQL, PHP etc. as well as some handy multimedia tutorials. Recommended!

So, You Want to Make a Web Page
This is the very first web design tutorial that I started with. It starts off very, very basic, and has a lot of pictures to show you what it should look like when the tags are done right. He also offers tables, forms and frames tutorials as well along with a free color picker to help with the color coding.

WDVL
The Web Developer's Virtual Library has many free tutorials on html and even more advanced web design, like style guides, html editors, html standards and proposed improvements, Usenet Newsgroups, CGI, Java, ActiveX, reference material, graphic tips and programs, even animation, plugin support, multimedia info, and a lot more. They are considered by many to be among the leaders in sources of web technology articles and tutorials, and covers all areas of interest to webmasters, designers and developers, from beginner to expert. Really worth checking out!

JavaScript for the Total Non-Programmer
This tutorial teaches you the basics of JavaScript and starts off assuming you know nothing about it when you start, unlike most of the other JavaScript tutorials.

CGI 101
A free CGI tutorial that is aimed at beginners, who have knowledge of html but want to learn the basics of CGI. Rather well written and will teach you enough to get you writing your very own cgi scripts in very little time.

XML.com
If you want to learn anything about XML this place pretty much covers it, all in one (huge) site. It is written from a bit more of an advanced veiw point, so if you're totally new to web design it might be a bit much to wade though. Keep plugging at it though, this site has a ton of very helpful information.

Chami Tips
A huge tips and tricks site that covers pretty much you'll ever wonder about with the web and computers! Be sure to take the time to visit their main page, Chami makes one of the best known (and most highly thought of) text editors around... and yes, the free version is fully functional with no time limits to try it out.