Web Design in a Nutshell is an overview of a wide variety of web design topics. It includes a little bit of a lot of topics, from designing graphics, using multimedia, from a designer’s perspective. I don’t have a review of this book up yet, but it’s still a very useful reference.
http://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/?ART=116
This comprehensive guide covers standard HTML as well as the special tags created by Netscape and Microsoft. It goes into detail on using frames, forms, and tables. It even covers the most basic Javascript (a mouse-sensitive image is one example). It sucks less than any other HTML book I’ve seen.
http://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/?ART=130
After two introductory chapters, he gets into modifying text properties, box properties, fonts, colors, headings, background colors and images, and an in-depth discussion of margins and padding for your ‘boxes’. The back of the book contains a reference to style sheet properties, and a “support chart” that describes how well each property is supported by the major visual browsers. If you’re doing web pages that use stylistic enhancements, you should really be using style sheets and this book will get you there.
http://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/?ART=124
This comprehensive guide covers the basics of JavaScript as well as compatibility issues between browsers, versions, and platforms. There is extensive information on using Javascript with forms. After four hundred pages of instructional sections, there are another 350 pages of in-depth reference. This is an extremely useful book if you are programming in Javascript. If you are completely new to programming you might need a more basic book as well.
http://www.hoboes.com/NetLife/
http://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/?CAT=hack
Tutorials on these sites cover Javascript and other web and computer technologies.