Here are some Links to help the beginner/novice with creating a web page. The links in the examples do not go anywhere. They are mearly stock examples to show you how the page is constructed. Feel free to copy and paste the source code. I did it often and it saved a lot of time and typos.
Links
A Beginners Guide To HTML
Webmonkey�s How-to Web Design
Listing from Yahoo of pages to get backgrounds files
Frogness WebPage Design
Beginner & Advanced Web Design
File Transfer program
The beginners guide to Java Scripting
Examples
Hello Page
Table Page
Form Page
Images Page