[tardisrider]

I've recently gotten interested in creating web pages (both for fun and with the hope that such knowledge might be helpful in landing a job, and I've really been enjoying "Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML". It's a great book: highly informative and educational yet easy breezy at the same time.

From what I understand, the HF Web Design book is kind of a good companion, but I wonder if it is out of date? I read on a different post that the Web Design book focuses on XHTML, but that HTML5 is the new standard. I don't know if that means that the design book is obsolete or not.

I've been getting a lot out of the HTML book--I'm really hoping that other Head First books follow the same "style" and quality, but they're a bit pricy for my nearly non-existent, unemployed-person (ie broke-ass) budget, so I have to make sure that anything I get is going to be actually worthwhile.

After I finish the current book and practice a little, I'll probably get the new book on HTML5 if I can, but I haven't touched anything HTML5 related, yet. Don't have the slightest clue about it or how it's different.

With all that being said, my main question about the Heads Up Web Design book is: Should I get it or is there maybe a new HTML5 based edition that I should wait for?

Or maybe it would be more useful for me to focus on learning something related but separate, like javascript or sql--I have no knowledge of either of those, but from what I understand such knowledge would be useful.

I do realize, of course, that this is the publisher's website and the marketing department will say "Get it! Get it now! Buy ALL the books!" but I hope that someone who sees this will give some fairly objective answers! Thanks!