This guide was written in part to provide this reminder and in part to expose the reader to "miser" pedagogy which requires that a practical/interesting point be reached with a bare minimum of instruction. The student can then determine if further pursuit of the subject is worthwhile. If so, learning becomes the acquisition of tools to accomplish fun things --- a much less burdensome task than climbing a learning curve to a vague goal.

           In accordance with the foregoing, all essential concepts of html are covered in an approximately half hour lesson (Lesson 1). In another, slightly longer lesson (Lesson 2) the student learns to create a multimedia web site with color, sound and animation. This is the decision point. After this 1 to 2 hour investment, the student can decide to continue or abort.

           If continuing is the choice, the student is exposed to a succession of lessons designed to provide the most "bang for the buck", lessons where nonessentials are kept to a miserly minimum.

           The guide ends having provided the student with the basic tools to build full-featured web sites. For details omitted in the interest of thrift, the student is referred to FREE encyclopedic online references.