HTML & Web design recommendations - morfizm

A good friend of mine is doing her own site and she is asking for book/resource references about HTML and Web design. I suppose she also needs basics of Web development, such as CSS, Javascript, understanding of different content management systems and development tools.

Last time I was doing Web Development was 5 years ago, and I don't remember I used anything other than HTML Specification, W3school reference about CSS and MSDN Javascript reference, and I don't know if any cool things have emerged since then.

Also, on one hand I need something more broad than HTML/CSS/javascript specs, on another hand, I need something easier to read for a person without programmer's background.