I am not going in depth about this because a million sites have already done terrific job of detailing the "how to's". I have a list of some of them below.

First of all you are going to learn how to use a HTML editor.

To see a copy of the HTML file that your browser reads to generate the information in your current window, from the toolbar, select View, Source (or the equivalent) from the browser menu. (Most browsers have a "View" menu under which this command is listed.) The file contents, with all the HTML tags, are displayed in a new window.

This is an excellent way to see how HTML is used and to learn tips and constructs. Of course, the HTML might not be technically correct. Once you become familiar with HTML and check the many online and hard-copy references on the subject, you will learn to distinguish between "good" and "bad" HTML.

Remember that you can save a source file with the HTML codes and use it as a template for one of your Web pages or modify the format to suit your purposes.

You can get a HTML editor from http://www.tucows.com/htmlbeginner95.html.

Ater you create your page(s), you need to get your website uploaded to the internet. The HTML editor you used to create your web pages may be able to upload your site.
WS-FTP LE is a free program that you can download here. It has a great tutorial that shows you how to use it.

Some things to keep in mind:

Your computer is the local computer, the web server (where you upload to) is the remote computer.

You will upload to the html folder.

Name your first page "index.html". Your address will be http://ftp.darientel.net/~login (substitute your user name, your login and user name are the same). Be aware if you name your first page something like "first.htm", your address will be "http://www.darientel.net/~username/first.htm", and you probably don't want that. If you do, fine.

File names are case-sensitive. If your html refers to an image as "BlueBall.gif", make sure the name is "BlueBall.gif", and not "blueball.gif".

You must upload the images, too. With a good html tool, it may be easy to be misled into believing that the images are part of the document. They are not, and must be uploaded separately.

Tutorials for website construction:
http://www.teleport.com/~danal/Pages/making.html
http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/columns/abcs_of_building_web_sites.html
http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/0-3881-8-5893399-1.html
http://www.ga.unc.edu/NCCIU/ispt/resources/buildwww.html
http://home.netscape.com/browsers/createsites/index.html