The book is definitely designed for those of you who have already made some Web pages. It does not teach the basics of coding, rather the tweaks and mistakes that separate a good page from a mediocre page. What makes the book particularly effective are not just the pictures of live Web pages that are terrible, but the ones that seem OK until they are picked apart by the authors. You can gain Web years of experience just by watching the authors critique and change their own sites. The book comes with a CD-ROM that contains demo versions of many software utilities and the HTML coding for the examples in the book.
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If you do any Web design, read this book. While a lot of it may seem like common sense, we all need the obvious pointed out to us at times. A Desktop Quick Reference by Jennifer Niederst. Once again, O'Reilly delivers a spectacular book. I never thought it possible to distill so many facts about HTML, including HTML 4.0, into an eminently readable and useful book.