High Five Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media Web Style Guide Color is one of the most technically intensive areas of site design. Understanding the basics of digital color and its relation to graphic file formats is fundamental. The Web Reference site's treatment of these issues is very technical, but well worth the time . Most of the major web resources mentioned above for example cover this issue thoroughly. The web is not the first place one looks for typgraphic refinement.
Web typography is something that is generally tolerated by designers rather than truly controlled.
However, there are some sources of sound advice on controlling web type. Other sites explore more traditional type issues within the web medium. Some can be done in one sitting, others in a few days. Tables are going to be around a while longer, and you still have to know how to build them by hand. Some concise on-line treatments.