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These are the bare basics you need to learn in order to write html. Once you get this stuff, and understand it, the rest will come easily.
The first thing you realy need to know about writting html is that every tag you start, you should end. Tags are little bits of information that tell the computer what to do, and they are put inside < and >.To end a tag you need </ and >
Say if i wanted to make some text bold i would put <b>infront of the word/s (b for bold) and then </b> after it. Youd type the text like this: blah <b>blah</b> blah and it would appear like this: blah blah blah. Got it? good.

Before you start doing anything on a new page, you should put this in:
<html>
<head>
<title> </title>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>
The two html tags, at the very top and very bottom, say that everything between them is html coding. Simple enough.
Next come the head code, which is a little harder to explain. You cant see direct results of the codes that are put in here, but you see the results of them on your page.
Inside the head tags are the title tags. Im not sure about Mac computers but on Windows computers it changes the name of the site up on that blue strip, way up there at the top of your page.
So then we end the head tags and start on the body. This is where allmost ALL of the stuff goes. This written in here can be seen directly on the webpage. If you type in here without using tags, it can be seen like normal writing on the site.
So then we end the body, and end the html.

Ok, so now we have the basic layout done, we start adding stuff onto the page. The simple tags that webdesigners use every day are: Bold, Italic, Image, Link and the Break tag.

Code	What does it do?	Example
<i> </i>	Makes anything written between them slanted.	You want text in italics? This is how you do it!
<b> </b>	Makes anything written between them look chunkier.	You want text in italics? Too bad! This text is bold!
<img src=" ">	Allows you to add an image onto the page. This tag dosent need an ending. You put the source of an image in between the two " 's.
<a href=" "> LINK </a>	This tag creats a link between one page and another page. Just put the source of the other page between the " 's, then the name of the link before you end it.	Link
<br>	I think this is the most used tag in all of html history. It simply makes the text go to the next line. If you simple press Enter, or Return the computer does not understand it and wont go to the next line. Oh, and it dosent need an ending tag.	See how this text suddenly stops and goes to the next line? thats because i put a <br> after the word "stops".

Ok, so now you know the basic beginnings to writing html. You can now start making your own basic pages, or you can read the next tutorial and learn more!