Kamen:
I have seen a lot of web controlled arduino tutorials and example code. Most of it is outdated and throws errors when I paste it into the IDE. Much of it assumes I've got an xbee or extra PC to run Processing on.
Then you aren't looking at the right examples.
Kamen:
What I'm looking for is the arduino itself to act as the web server and handle control through basic HTML.
First you need to understand how HTML elements are converted to a URL. Then your Arduino code parses the URL.