Why read books when you can learn things the hard way? Because good books are written by people with experience, people who learnt from their mistakes. No point in comitting the same mistakes and learning from them, when you can read a book and do better. Be better informed so that you make mistakes that very few have yet to come across.
Starting with the best introductory books to HTML, CSS & JS by Jon Duckett, just so that I am not caught unaware by any unexpected JS in the other books. Then moving on to the high quality publishers of content on Web Design, because as a beginner I should be learning from the best. Then everything else, keeping in mind that even if I learn just one thing that's extremely useful or thoughtful from an entire book, that's still great.
- HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites by Jon Duckett (Official Site)
- JavaScript and JQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development by Jon Duckett ([Official Site]