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Nicholas Stimpson

Basically the right idea, but I'd say don't learn about fonts, or layout, or trying to make your website look amazing with HTML. These are all issues you can and should postpone until you get to CSS. Trying to do them with HTML will lead you down the wrong path. Concentrate on understanding the semantics. Learn about lists, and forms, the main element, alt attributes and the built in aria roles.

It's hard I know, we all have a natural desire to want to make our work look beautiful. I've been there; used tables for layout, blockquotes for indents, spacer gifs and other hacks we had to do back in the day. But now, I strongly recommend just being patient. You'll get on to CSS soon enough, and you'll end up with the right understanding of where the division between semantics and style properly lies.