This is a book written as an introductory text, and thus, it contains many words in bold. If you are looking for more than bold words like "Home page", "Frame", "Icon", or "Applet", then you may wish to consider a different text.
Most importantly, the examples of good site design given by this text are bad... which makes it hard to take some of its design principles seriously. This book is for those who want to talk about web design, not do it.
This book does provide a good start for someone totally new to the "I-way" (It hurts me to type that...) as it dose deal with the basics. However, I just couldn't help but feel that most of the text was giving new, bold names (I'm talking typeface here), to concepts with which most are already familiar.