Elson Home Page Intermediate to Advanced Web References and Links References for advanced web users and early to intermediate web authors. Last significant update May 1998. It's since been revised and updated to server other presentations. There is tremendous turnover in many of these sites, perhaps because of the nature of the topics. I used to recommend not buying a book that's more than a year old, but as of 2000 the web is now changing much more slowly.
Many older books are quite fine.
Sometimes the companion sites can be a guide to quality. How to Use Html 3.2 by Scott Arpajian, Robert Mullen. Ziff Davis Pr. The entire book is made up of annotated illustrations. Just as the title says.