HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language
HTML is technically a "markup" language. It basically serves to mark out sections of text that should appear in a certain style. This is quite a bit different from a "programming" language, which is a set of grammatical statements and rules that can be combined to give instructions to the computer. A "Scripting" language is something of a hybrid of the two, although it's closer to a programming language (to provide a series of instructions to the computer), but its rules are less strict and less complex.
Scripting languages are best suited for small programming tasks, such as those you would need in a Web page (as opposed to creating a word processing program such as Microsoft Word).
HTML allows for presenting text and displaying certain types of graphics, as well as links to connect one page to another page - either on the same computer or somewhere else in the world.
HTML basically deals with Web content by:

• Formatting and displaying the content of a page.
• Waiting for the user to click on something in the page.
• Depending on what the user clicked on, fetching something else (a new page, a file, etc) and repeating the process.

HTML is a coding launguage used to create HyperText documents for use on the WWW> HTML looks a lot like old-fashioned typesetting code, where you surround a block of text with codes that indicate how it should appear, additionally, in HTML you can specify that a blick of text, or a word, is "linked" to another file on the Interent. HTML files are meant to be viewed using a World Wide Web Client Program, such as, Netscape or Microsoft Explorer.

What is a Home Page?

A home page is the first page that you develop on a Web, it is the page for which you first make links to other pages.
It is also, usually, the first page people see when they "look-up" your Web Site.
The home page is the entry point for access to a local "station" on the web. Individuals often present personal or professional information on a private "home page".
The opening page of a Web site is called the home page.
When writing HTML documents... the first page you start on is usually the home page... and usually named index.html, index.htm, or Default.htm.

The World's largest system of interconnected networks linked by phone lines and satellite. The Internet has lots of information and lets people send electronic mail and have chats all over the world. A co-operatively run, globally distributed hierachy of networks composed of campus, state, regional and national networks.
They are connected in a kind of web, communicating with one another at amazing speeds using a common set of rules or codes (the TCP/IP Protocol) for exchanging data. According to the New york Times, "The hardest fact to grasp about the Internet is that no one owns it; no one runs it. It is simply everyone's computer's connected."

What is the Internet & the WWW?

WWW (World Wide Web)
WWW has a few meanings; Loosely used: The whole constellation of resources that can be accessed using Gopher, FTP, HTTP, telnet, Usenet, WAIS and some other tools.
Second: the universal of hypertext servers (HTTP servers); which are the servers that allow text, graphics, sound files etc to be mixed together.
The World Wide Web is a tool that allows you to browse through the Internet looking for information by selecting links from hypertext documents.
The benefits of using WWW are: -

• you can select resources from links within documents, rather than having to type in an IP address to get them.
• you don't have to remember lots of different commands to get what you want.
• links to different kinds of resource (eg documents, other kinds of file, telnet, gopher FTP sites) can appear in the same document
• hypertext documents can be displayed and printed out in an attractive, easy to read form (eg using headlines, bold, italics, images, etc)
• when you select a key term, it's article is displayed on the screen.

Also, while doing that search, I found a really useful page that I think if you wanted to learn HTML, you should check out this site.The home URL for this documentation is:-
http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/NewHTML/intro.html
The page that I think you'll find really, really useful is:-
http://www.telstra.com.au/docs/webdocs/HTMLdocs/
NewHTML/htmlindex.html

Features of a well-designed HTML document.

There are several standards on the web today and not all browsers can handle all things (such as multimedia, videos, JavaScript, etc). So a well designed HTML document would be one who allows for the different types of browsers available today.

If the document contains a certain *.avi file , *.wav, or *.mov file, etc. then the document should contain a link to find out (or to download) about the program needed to view or hear etc. the given file.

The Webmaster should also take into account the fact that different computers have different adapters (video cards) and monitors;therefore having different colours (256 colours, 16million colours, etc) and resoulutions available to them. This taken into account, they should note that pictures and text, etc. are going to look different on certain computers.

The pages should not contain too much text or too many pictures, etc. as most people will not waste their time waiting to view a site.
Pictures shouldnt be too big as they take too long to download, so to deter that from happening to you, the webmaster should think of putting a smaller picture in place of the bigger picture which will download first while the other is still loading.
Or having a link to the picture telling the viewer the size of the pic.
Another thing to note about pictures is the fact that the different browsers support different types of pictures, so a Web site might look perfect when viewing it with for example, 'Netscape', but when the same document is viewed with 'Microsoft Internet Explorer'; the document links might be broken, the pictures may not be viewed and the text would be out of whack.

Make sure you look at your document in as many browsers as you can, in different resoulutions, etc.
Or alternatively, provide a link to the browser(s) that your document looks the best in.. and tell the viewers what resoloution/colours that your site looks the best in.

A Web should be designed for ease of use; meaning that when you visit a site, you should have the option of "jumping" to other pages or sites and then back again rather than poorly designed Webs where you have to view every page to get the information you want.