When I was in College the Deitel and Deitel series of books were fantastic and I would highly recommend them to anyone who is just starting out. They show you the code and then go through it step by step. My all time favorite book is called Dynamic HTML by Shelly Powers pub. IDG Books. While many of you might think that technology has grown beyond this book, I would still recommend it to anyone just starting out building web pages. It is informative, gives examples and ALL the examples work right out of the book. However, it may not be in book stores or even in print anymore. Dealing with new ASP.Net technology I would say the ASP.Net 3.5 Unleashed is a very good book. My ...environment... is not exactlly up-to-date (I think they are still using .Net 1.0) but I can still make many of the examples work from this book and once you understand the vocabulary of ASP.Net C# this book becomes much clearer and it so far appears that all the examples work. So, for ratings, I would have to put them as follows: 1. ASP.Net 3.5 Unleashed, pub.SAMS 2. Dynamic HTML, auth., Shelly Powers, pub., IDG Books 3. Deitel and Deitel series (many different subjects, pick yours)