As far as I know, all websites use HTML to some degree. It provides all the code you need to set up almost any kind of website. Granted, it can't make things light up when you move the mouse over them, and you can't make an online shopping cart with it, but it gets the job done for just about everything else.

When you visit a website, the computer that is storing the data sends your computer a file (usually ending in .html) that contains code. This code is then interpreted and displayed by your browser.

To start making a website, I always begin with writing the HTML code for the home page. I then break it up, toss in some PHP and JavaScript here and there, and do some other things, but I'll get to that later.

Don't know HTML? PageResource.com has some nice tutorials.

Once you know how to write HTML code, you need to decide how to organize your page. Hence, the "organization" link below.