The HTML Sourcebook

This is a bad book to read. But then, perhaps it wasn't meant to be read from front to back. It feels more like a dictionary, where you look up stuff you want to read about HTML tags and CGI (a little). Still, aside from the lousy ordering and poor flow of the chapters, there are some principles being laid out. Overall, it's a really poor resource for beginners because it's confusing and doesn't really explain HTML well, just HTML tags (but it unfortunately doesn't even touch of browser specifics). It's also a poor resource for more learned readers because a big part of the book documents common HTML tags in too much detail.