This document provides an overview of HTML and CSS for a lab exercise on creating interactive web sites. It defines HTML as the standard markup language used to structure web pages and describes common HTML elements like headings, paragraphs, and images. It then defines CSS as the language used to format and style HTML elements, describing how CSS can be added inline, internally, or via external stylesheets to control properties like colors, fonts, spacing, and layout. The document provides examples of HTML code and both internal and external CSS.