Here are some tools and sites where you can learn and try HTML and CSS, for designing your own websites or just for learning something new. This post has been long overdue, sorry Didi.

There are a lot of tutorials and tools in the internet but here are my favorites.

Blogs/Websites

Lissa Explains it All! – This helped me a lot! It’s a site which aims to teach people, especially children, how to make their own websites. I learned almost everything here, the basics.
Don’t Fear the Internet – You can watch short tutorial videos where you’ll learn to manipulate the CSS of a basic wordpress blog, it’s HTML, and PHP.
HTML 5 Rocks – a Google site for everything HTML5
Web Design Ledger – Tutorials, freebies, inspiration on web design.
Smashing Magazine – a site/communicty for web designers and developers, from n00bs to professionals.
Line 25 – Tutorials, freebies, inspiration on web design
CSS Tricks – CSS tricks.

Tools

Cupcake Ipsum – Loren Ipsum generator with a twist.
Border Radius – round corner CSS generator
Tekzr – a coding app

Another good way to know about HTML and CSS is by reading books. A Book Apart “publishes highly detailed and meticulously edited examinations of single topics”.

The three books shown in the picture above are up for grabs until February 15, 2012 at Mensis Liber. Click here to join.