one of the better resources for learning the basics:
http://www.w3schools.com/
feel free to bug me if you want help with anything website wise.
the way I started off was to find sites that i liked and look at the code to see how they did it (right click menu -> view source)
and as xac said.. start in notepad, it will force you to do everything slowly at first.. but it will help you understand what you are doing and why