Catherine,

Elizebeth Castro’s book is the same as the Peachpit Press book somebody else recommended. I’ll add my recommendation also. What is partucularily nice about that series of books is that, unlike many technical books that assume you have a technical background of some sort, they assume you have very little knowledge of the subject. Thus they get into the nuts and bolts, such as FTP, Telnet, remote hosting, tools, etc., that are rarely covered in other books which can be very frustrating to people new to the topic.

For those of you with an HTML/Javascript background… continue on with the CGI/Perl book (or PHP for you girly men). Server side scripting unleashes a lot of power (like this blog for example).