Yeah, it’s long. #1 requested tutorial on my page is how to make your own site though. I guess it beats those “learn html in 24 hours” books in any case. See the freehosts below on how to put your page online.

RGB Color
You can indicate color by using RGB mode too. eg. #336699 is a nice blue google likes to use. It stands for 33 red, 66 green, and 99 blue in hexadecimal.

Domains cost money, like $10 a year usually or less. I’m not going to endorse any registrars.

HTML Validator

http://validator.w3.org/

CSS Validator

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Some decent text editors

http://www.context.cx/

http://www.pspad.com/

http://www.jedit.org/

http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

http://www.notetab.com/

html forums

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.html

CSS Forums

http://csscreator.com/?q=forum/

Info about “Lorem Ipsum” often seen on template pages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

CSS Transparency
IE
filter:alpha(opacity=50);
Firefox
-moz-opacity:0.5;
kde based browsers
-khtml-opacity: 0.5;
Safari
opacity: 0.5;