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On Sat, 23 May 2009 11:00:58 +0100, T wrote:

You could habve looked in past posts first.
http://groups.google.com/group/24hou...elpdesk/topics

Check some of my old ones with other links, including yale style guide.

>I have been given the task of building the intranet pages for my section at
>work. I do not have any HTML skills. I need a course either online or as a

http://www.eclasses.org/
Quire a few good courses, Intro & Level 2 HTML, CSS ditto,

others courses like -
- Web Content Writing
Learn effective skills and techniques for writing effective web content.

- Legal Issues for Web Designers and Content Managers
Learn about information security, copyright and trademark laws.

If in US and accessability laws count, this course.
- Introduction to Designing Accessible Websites
Explore the area of web accessibility using a hand-on and project-based
approach.

- Introduction to Web Design

If you want interactive bits, they also do PHP,Ajax and JavaScript
Courses.

>book I can buy. The only tools I will have is Office 2007 which does not

I hate to say this, then write it up as a DOC and save to HTML.

About the only book I use now days are O'Reilly,
CSS: The Definitive Guide , Third Edition
By Eric A. Meyer
November 2006

HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide , Sixth Edition
By Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy

>include Front Page or any tool I can download for free or buy cheaply. The
>company will not buy Dreamweaver.

What you really want is a full blown GUI editor / page / content with
style templates in place, sounds more like you want to produce content
rather than learn, 'really' learn from scratch.

The latter is of course the best way.

>The company isn't too bothered about what it looks like, it is only for
>internal use. As a matter of pride, I would like to make a decent job of
>it. I don't see myself hand coding HTML in notepad.

That's a good way, no clutter.

Then use UltraEdit (not free), or any number of free HTML/CSS/Scripting
color syntax highlighting editors.

At least start off with valid templates for HTML etc.
http://molly.com/templates.php


>Can anyone advise where to start?

See my past posts in 24HSHD.

>Thanks in advance.
>

Me