Hi everyone i want to know whats the best books to learn webdesign and developing static and dynamic websites, want to us e css and posibly sql.
Can anyone advise. Many thanks Dave
Hi devdave. Welcome to the forums. 
Your title seems to ask a different question from your post. Anyhow, there is not a solid line between HTML4 and 5. New HTML5 elements are gradually becoming supported by browsers, so it’s ok to us them—but with caution and awareness of browser support issues. “Only use them if you really need them” is my approach right now—which basically means not using them at all.
i want to know whats the best books to learn webdesign and developing static and dynamic websites, want to us e css and posibly sql.
SitePoint has some great books on all those topics:
Web design: http://www.sitepoint.com/books/html3/
Dynamic sites: http://www.sitepoint.com/books/phpmysql5/
SQL: http://www.sitepoint.com/books/sql1/
Hi would these books be any good.
The Ultimate CSS Reference
The Ultimate HTML Reference
The CSS Anthology 101 essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks
Build your website the right way using HTML and CSS
HTML Utopia Designing without tables using CSS
The photoshop Anthology 101 Web Design Tips,Tricks and Techniques
Yup, they’re all good.
The Ultimate CSS Reference
The Ultimate HTML Reference
The second of those was written by our own Paul O’Brien (the Team Leader of this Design forum) and it’s great. There are also online versions of both books here:
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css
Build your website the right way using HTML and CSS
Ha ha, I linked to that one above.