"Which is the best place to start leaning html"

Hi Warriors.

I've been playing around with dreamweaver for some time and can make a basic website, but i have to do this in dreamweaver in the design view or split code view. I can use tables and very little css work but get very frustrated when it comes to other things. I ask questions to members and in other forums ( forgive me ), but as i am not a web designer i can never understand any of the code, what it means or how to use it so on and so on.

I have only just started looking at IM Seriously at a late stage in my life, I tryed it once before but only played at it and did not treat it seriousley which is why i failed the first time round. So now that i do take it seriousley i need to progress with dreamweaver in order to achive the goals i have set for myself.

I now need to lean the basics of html and was wondering if any one could point me in the right direction to something i could get ( preferably free at this stage) to start me off at trying to learn html. I am Quite old to some people and not very tec minded but are still willing to lean.

I would be greatfull if anybody could help, thanx.

By the way, is there a spell check when i'm posting or replying to a thread, not very well educated in my day at school. Some of the spelling hoever is that some of my keys on the pc don't work properly.