The most abundant and widely used part of the world wide web are websites which allow anybody with access to a web browser and an internet connection to view and share information.

The fundamental building block of a website has been HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language. But owing to its obvious limitations and semantic faults, a conscious effort was made by the standards group W3C.org to not only develop an alternative markup language based on XML called XHTML but also separate the markup from the style through the use of CSS which imparted much more power and flexibility to the people designing websites.

I found the book "Web Design In A Nutshell - A Quick Desktop Reference" authored by Jennifer Niederst Robbins and published by O'Reilly to be a one of a kind book in that it covers all the important concepts.

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