This was assigned as a textbook for Web Development I, and it basically taught the class by itself.

A hefty tome, this book intimidated me up until I opened it and found the illustrated explanation of its mission, to help readers trick their brains into thinking CSS is "as important as a tiger." It does a great job, too - with conversational language, straightforward explanations, and lots and lots of pictures, examples, and exercises, this book taught me oodles of new things about HTML and CSS. I'd recommend it to anyone who's just starting or, like me, comes to the field with some extremely rudimentary HTML skills.

Also, did I mention it's hilarious? Just plain fun to read.

It looks like the series does similar books not only for other web concepts (I'm browsing the JavaScript one now), but for math. I bet they'd be great for struggling students!

Does your lack of website skills make you feel whack? Do you wish you could at least throw up a basic page, chop out some CSS or at the very least, change your blogger template? Pick up this lucid, funny and ever helpful book. Then open it. You won't regret it and neither will your resume or your blog readers.

Very elementary, but got out a few tidbits I didn't know before.