I've had great difficulty in finding a simple tutorial for writing HTML by hand; I learnt from Acorn User and since then HTML has become a lot more complex. However, quite effective pages can be created with very little effort and the basic HTML taught here.
Lessons
Obviously this tutorial is an ongoing work-in-progress. Please let me know what you'd like covered and I'll do my best to fit it in.
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