AerBabe,
You might also find
philip.greenspun.com/panda/ helpful, particularly
Learn to program HTML in 21 minutes. Much of this you will already know, but having allowed the religious war to abate somewhat

I'm fanning the flames again, since thus latter page actually contains as much about "style" as it does about "how to create it".
Hope it's helpful
Brooklands
See Greenspun (above) on the subject of XML

[ not saying that I either agree
or disagree with him -- just noting that his comments are, well,
interesting...