If you’re interested in creating a Web site, chances are that you’ve at least seen the terms HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Flash floating around. Maybe your friends talk about their WordPress blogs or Facebook pages and you don’t know whether you should do the same or dive into using a more powerful tool, like Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expression Web.

However, unless you’re a professional Web designer, you might be a bit unsure of — and maybe even a little intimidated by figuring out — where to start. You have to know which of these technologies is important to know and which ones can be left to the techie-geek crowd. What’s more, you need to know the least amount of information you need to have to create a decent Web site.

Along the way, you will need to dig into the code of your Web page and at least make sense of what’s going on behind the scenes. However, when possible, you may want to use Dreamweaver or Expression Web to handle most of that lower-level coding for you.

If these sorts of issues ring true for you, you have the right book in hand.