Does anyone recommend any good books for learning html and css from scratch. I know a lil bit already but i'd like to start afresh and give it a real go this summer so if you could point me in the direction of some good books then that would be great

I would like to recommend you following two books.

http://book.pdfchm.com/head-first-html-with-css-xhtml-6610/
http://book.pdfchm.com/the-essential-guide-to-css-and-html-web-design-10625/

or you can also learn from following websites

http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp


Good Luck :)

w3schools.com/ as said above is a great online resource, with lots of different technologies to learn and helpful walked through advice.

w3schools.com is my choice too.

I used the "For Dummies" book on html/xhtml/css.

http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesTitle/HTML-XHTML-CSS-For-Dummies-6th-Edition.productCd-047023847X.html

w3schools.com is my choice too.

This, plus actually working on writing xhtml and css from scratch. The best way to learn is practice, trial and error.