One of the greatest attractions of the World Wide Web is the ability to instantly publish. You can deliver text, images, audio, and even video to millions of people. It is easy, fast, and essentially free.
If you want to try something easy, you can use an automated page generator.
NCSA has an excellent Beginner's Guide to HTML. Many of my examples were taken from this Guide.
To get started, you might want to create a file with this template:
<html> <head> <TITLE>A Simple HTML Example</TITLE> </head> <body> <H1>HTML is Easy To Learn</H1> <P>Welcome to the world of HTML. This is the first paragraph. While short it is still a paragraph!</P> <P>And this is the second paragraph.</P> </body> </html>or, you can preview the template, then select File/Save As, if you don't want to type all of it in.
I have made up a Cheat Sheet of frequently used commands.
Here are some examples of various sorts of formatting. You can just View/Source and copy them into your own document.
If you need some images, Yahoo has a nice list. I especially like