Where to send someone who's just getting started

I have a friend who wants to get started in the website business. Basically just wants to build a couple sites around a few niches. Now its hard for me to explain all that I've learned to him, so....

Can you recommend a few good links I could send him that would help get him started and sort of point him in the right direction?

 

Send him ere

First to read

Then to asck .... questions that don't are quite stupid

 

how about you introduce him to DP forum?
it will be good for him here

 

To learn the actual mechanics surrounding web development I highly recommend w3schools.com as a starting point. I know that it's helped me out a lot!

 

I guess my biggest problem is that I don't know what to recommend him to use to create his pages (he doesn't know html). I myself use a Joomla CMS and there is no way he can grasp that right away. Should I point him toward website creators like GoDaddy's "Website Tonight" or or something?

Thanks for your input

 

i learnt basic html from htmlgoodies.com and the rest just fell into place from looking over source code and what not

 

tizag.com has awesome tutorials, I was able to teach myself PHP using their site, so I'm sure that their HTML section is equally competent.

 

He can start a forum, buy some forum software as they are very easy to use. Thats how i started.