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.

And we’ve also got a roundup of the best web design software for Mac. How to learn HTML and CSS and web design on your Mac: what you’ll need You don’t need much to create web pages in OS X.

HTML provides the structure, content and layout, CSS adds style and design, and JavaScript adds functionality and interactivity.

HTML, or Hyper Text Markup Language, is primitive by itself and needs CSS to give it the modern look of a website we’re used to. HTML alone gives us the looks of websites back in the late 90s and ...