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Oddly, Microsoft Word has an option to make a web page out of a document (File-Save as-Select HTML from the drop-down box)

Gah! No! Word produces horrible html!

The best way to learn html (the way I learned) is to find a few nice simple websites (my site is really basic - no complicated source code there- click the banner in my sig), right click on it and go to "view source". Compare the source to the site and you'll soon figure out how most of the simpler html tags work. Then you can start making your own simple html files in notebook and you're away.

Once you've got the hang of those, use google to find html tutorials for specific tags and ways of doing things. The web has about a zillion good, free html tutorials on it...

(BTW everyone, I could do more complex html on my site if I wanted to, I just choose not to for ease of maintenence )