This book introduces you to both PHP and mySQL and how to use them together to create dynamically generated web pages using relatively modern methods.
“Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site”

Getting forms in your web page to look the way you want has always been one of the most difficult parts of setting up the appearance of your web page. Not any more as this book shows you exactly how to get web browsers to apply the appearance you want to the form fields. Where [...]

Embedding fonts in your web page so your visitors will see the content in the right font whether they have it on their computer already or not has a number of issues including that some browsers don’t support it, some require different file formats than others, some will download the font even if they already [...]

While there are not many tags that are proposed to be dropped, there are quite a few attributes that are suggested for removal from the next version of HTML.
Attributes Dropped From HTML 5

The proposal for the next HTML version suggests changes to the meanings of several tags but does not provide a mechanism for determining which HTML version is being used to allow you to work out which meaning is intended.
Changed meanings in HTML 5

After the tag cleanup in HTML 4 there are not many extra tags that the next version could do away with.
Tags Removed From HTML 5

There are lots of new input field types proposed to be added to the next version of HTML. Almost all of them will make form processing much easier.
HTML 5 New Form Fields

The proposal for the next version of HTML lists a significant number of new tags. Here we look at what all the new tags are and what the closest equivalents are in the current standard.
HTML 5 New Tags

As I reviewed this book I was rather disappointed in how many errors there were with the HTML and JavaScript. It wasn’t until I compared my review of this third edition with what I had written a few years ago about the second edition that I realised just how much the book has actually improved.
“CSS [...]

This pocket sized reference covers a whole three versions of HTML. There are the old obsolete HTML 3.2 codes (as permitted under the HTML 4 transitional doctype), the current standard HTML 4 (strict) codes, and the preliminary draft HTML 5 codes. They are all labelled as to which version they apply to but are unfortunately [...]

Not all browsers support using tables for your page layout. While layout tables have been a part of the CSS standard for quite some time, Internet Explorer only introduced support for layout tables in version 8. You have a number of options on how to deal with how your page will look for those visitors [...]

You can further refine your CSS tables using properties that are specific to tables.
Table Properties