Writing for the World Wide Web

If you are interested in writing for the world wide web, this is the place to go. On this site you will find tutorials, guidlines, information about standards and accessibility and a whole lot more. The web is changing constantly and this is the engine room, don't buy a text book, it will be out of date next week!!
W3C's mission is:

To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web.

Another great site for tutorials is htmldog.
To write html all you need it note pad, however for those of you who prefer to use an html editor there are lots of good free one out there. I recommend html kit from chami.com for pc users.

Standards-compliant,full-featured and multi-purposedevelopment environment for editing HTML and other Web-related file types.

Writing css is a must for standards compliancy, once again you can use notepad or an excellent free download is TopStyle Lite from http://bradsoft.com/.
Happy coding...