http://www.sitepoint.com/article/html-css-beginners-guide

Toying with the idea of building your first web site? Or are you tired of being asked to build sites for family and friends? In this hands-on tutorial, Ian Lloyd unwraps the building blocks of web design and development, and shows exactly how they should be used! With this tutorial, readers can begin to build a complete, standards-compliant web site from scratch -- Ian assumes no prior knowledge at all.