HTML & CSS Is Hard – A friendly web development tutorial

Learning HTML and CSS is hard, but it doesn’t have to be. This 14-chapter tutorial is one of the friendliest HTML and CSS guides on the Internet. We’ll walk you through everything from selecting a good text editor (which is surprisingly important) to building full-fledged, professional-quality web pages from scratch.

This is possibly the most comprehensive guide to web development ever. OK, possibly not, but it is really rather good. The next time somebody asks me where to start, I’ll know where to point them.