General

http://bignosebird.com/
As one can guess from the site name, this webmaster has a fine sense of humor. 
But even better he has super advice for almost all phases of building a web site.

SitePoint

Media Builder has many animated GIFs, a banner maker and lots more.

Website Abstraction

As usual, the Mining Company has human verified terrific links to tons of Web Design Resources

SelfPromotion.com
<--(the guy is bending over backwards and tooting his own horn) has one of the most readable styles and great advice on getting your site found.

http://www.hotbot.com/web/

http://www.webtools.com/ has HTML, JAVA, Graphics, your name it and they let you choose Novice, Intermediate or Advanced level.

http://www.eborcom.com/webmaker/ has Tutorials, HTML, CGI, Java, ActiveX,

A guy named Dave has:
History of the Internet
HTML: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners
JavaScript: Easy as Pie... JS Tutorial for Newbies

1000s of pages

Kresch.com has a search position analyzer and other cool tools

Publicizing
beseen submits to AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek, Lycos, and WebCrawler.

 Check out this Web Designers Tutorial to help you create pages that can be found easily and accurately by the major search engines.

Submit Shack claims to submit your URL to 400 search engines and saves the stuff so you can submit over and over.

Netiquette

Netiquette Home Page - comprehensive and light hearted includes a quiz!

FrontPage

First stop should be the Microsoft site since they make FrontPage.  The site has an excellent tutorial.

OutFront.Net is a Microsoft FrontPage learning community. Site includes techniques, J-Bots, themes, Resources .

HTML

<free web tools from ZDNET>

Link Check - This free service will search your Web site for broken links.
HTML Check - This free service will test how well your HTML matches the W3C standards.
GIFBot - This free image optimizer to slim all the graphics on your Web site.
Load Check - This free tool will measure the download time of your Web pages.

HTML Goodies has Java Goodies too

This guy named Dave had a terrific HTML tutoria.  I like the way he explains the EMBED for sound!

Graphics

See my clip art page

Java/JavaScript

Free Java Applets

http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/
Webmoney has a nice Tutorial also HTML help

www.thefreesite.com/freejava.htm This has many many links to sites that have free Java and free Java instructions (there is also lots of othe

r free stuff at www.thefreesite.com)

History ("Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it.")

http://www.internetvalley.com
History of Internet and WWW:
The Roads and Crossroads
of Internet  History
by  Gregory R. Gromov

http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

http://www.nyupress.nyu.edu/netwars
NYU Press is pleased to present its first online book, net.wars by Wendy M. Grossman - free of charge to our readers. The online version is published simultaneously to the print edition which you can buy at your local bookstore or order from NYU Press.