Browse Amazon Books: Hypertext Markup Language - HTML
HTML ( HyperText Markup Language ) is the preferred language for web pages. Despite its apparent complexity, it is very easy to learn, and any serious webmaster should be HTML- literate. WYSIWYG editors cobble together cumbersome HTML that fails to take advantage of some very useful HTML tags. Furthermore, advanced web tools like Javascript, ASP, and PHP, all produce output which browsers interpret as HTML, so the HTML basics are essential to these more advanced webmastering techniques.
If you are starting to learn HTML, consider using a book which incorporates Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) in it's discussion. CSS has been a part of the HTML specification since 1996, but browser support of the standard lagged far behind. Today few visitors have any trouble viewing web pages with stylesheets, and it is much easier to learn CSS as part of HTML than to try to retro-fit it to existing pages.
