Catherine–

I highly recommend everything by Peachpit Press. Its authors use a very consistent house style that allows you to delve in wherever you want. Their books are also heavily and thoughtfully indexed. You can find their books by their distinctive, big bold covers.

I put my own web page up (not a blog) using their books and stealing, er, borrowing some programming routines from other websites. That’s the great thing about HTML; it’s completely open-source code.

I would get a basic book on HTML and perhaps one on Javascript. The two work hand-in-hand. If you want to do anything the least bit complicated you’ll need to know a little Javascript.