In this beginner-friendly rundown, we start with the fundamentals of the web: how it works and the technical resources to bookmark to create your own website using HTML and CSS.

These three programming languages are tools that you can use to create, design and style your very own website.

Thimble, which is part of Mozilla's recently launched Webmaker project, is meant to help novice users write and edit basic HTML and CSS right in a web-based code editor.

Make sure you validate your HTML and CSS, using a service like the W3C’s validator. This will warn you about obsolete tags and other errors that may make your HTML less robust.