Here, you will find some information that helped me to create pages like this one. You will realize that you will get familiar with the HTML-Language in a short time. It is a relatively easy language. The most important thing to remember is to HOLD OVERVIEW in your documents. Since HTML does not care about white spaces, it is a great chance to use it. Don't try to put too much information in one line - try to split them even the final information is on one line!

Images

The HTML-language supports for the IMG-tag to add WIDTH and HEIGHT information. Some browsers use it in pre-allocating space on the document before the image is allready loaded. This helps if you especially have a multithreaded browser such as IBM WebExplorer. To get better support for myself, I wrote a utility called ImgHtml that creates a simple HTML-document with the given images. Supported images are .GIF and .JPG. Other images (.BMP, .XMP, ...) will still be referenced, but no image size information will be determined. I use this tool for 2 things:
Example result of ImgHtml (static)
Example result of ImgHtml (dynamic)
Readme for ImgHtml

HTML-Editors

At the very first time, I was searching over the internet for several HTML-editors. I tried them out and I realized, that it is a good help to start with the HTML-language. one day later, I throw away all these editors and began to write these documents with my good old fashion VI ;-)) (VI is a text only editor that was created in the 1960s for the UNIX operating systems...). Today, I'm using VIM (i.e. VI Improved). It supports syntax highlighting as the most important feature but still allows me to steer this editor with the same commands as I am used to edit pure text files. The best benefit was, that I did no more take care, if my editor supports this or that HTML-extension. Just study the HTML-documents and use them....
HTML 3.0 Specification
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Version of May 12th, 1998