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HTML, which stands for HyperText Mark-Up Language, is the language for describing structured documents as well as the language used to create web pages in the Internet.

The language is based on an existing, international formatting standard SGML, Standard Generalized Mark-Up Language, which is used for text processing.

HTML is one of the three main components of the web alongside CSS and JavaScript, that are used to primarily develop web pages and web applications which run on web browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. All web applications use HTML because it is the only language which browsers understand and render on the computer screen.

Cascading Style Sheets, fondly referred to as CSS, is a simple design language intended to simplify the process of making web pages presentable.

CSS handles the look and feel part of a web page. Using CSS, you can control the color of the text, the style of fonts, the spacing between paragraphs, how columns are sized and layout, what background images or colors are used, layout designs, variations in display for different devices and screen sizes as well as a variety of other effects.

CSS is easy to learn and understand but it provides powerful control over the presentation of an HTML document. Most commonly, CSS is combined with the markup languages HTML or XHTML.

You should be able to learn enough of the basics of HTML and CSS to allow you to build a simple web site in a couple of hours. I suggest learning it by watching a video of someone live coding a website and explaining each line as they write it.

Focus on learning big picture concepts – in this case what HTML tags and CSS Selectors are – and don’t get too caught up in memorizing all the specific tags or syntax. You can always learn that stuff as specific cases come up.

Later down the line if you don’t know how to do something you can always do a Google Search to figure out how to do something. You’ll see a ton of articles explaining exactly how to do that. That means that you should focus on getting proficient enough with HTML to be able to understand those types of pages and be able to learn the specifics on the fly.

I suggest avoiding doing in-browser stuff, like Codecademy, simply because learning by writing code and seeing the result as you code it will help you learn the material much quicker. You can follow-up my simple tutorial on Start from Scratch for HTML & CSS also. I tried to keep simple & basic, so that you can experiment with it on your offline computer also.

If you are a beginner in web designing and want to learn HTML so I would suggest you go through my tutorial series on web designing from scratch. Alternatively, you can follow-up w3schools.com or try out learn-html.org.

The main reason I created a separate tutorial is to share how with minimal knowledge I started making websites since I am ten. Many other websites tell so many things but forget to focus on the initiation pain of a beginner. So, checkout which one is best for you to begin your web design journey.