Hi guys. I have an assigment which include building a website for a university course. Not going into the details, i need to use applets to implement the processes of the website. The user interface will be done in html using Frontpage.
Now i know VERY little HTML and suitable amount of JAVA. The problem is i don't know how to have communication between an HTML and and JAVA. For example, the first page will be the logging in. If i do that in an applet, how can i then instruct the webpage to go to the next page according to the applet's result? Stuf like that...
I'm not sure if i'm making any sense here cause i have no experience in website development.
Where can i learn useful HTML to design a website? I need something easy and quick to design a nice looking website. And there is this thing about the server, apache or something...what exactly is this used for? To upload websites?

I appreciate any help!
Thanks.