the chapters (13 through 15) in the Non-Designer's Web book were very useful for setting up and maintaining my website. Chapter 13 supplied some quick tips regarding soem creative uses of tables to help align text and integrate in into graphics. There were also some photoshop tips for enhancing pictures and managing text to make it more readable (especially small fonts). There were also some tips for managing how pictures load on pages more efficiently as well as slicing graphics which allows you to do funky things with parts of a picture seemlessly. Funky is generally good, as long as it doesn't include anything flashing or tossing out disco music (that wasn't from the chapter). some additional photoshop tips were thrown in and some cool stuff about rollovers and image-swaps (which are also funky. No Disco). They also gave a little intro about Flash.
chapter 14 talked about testing your website and fixing the crap you did (like including disco music). it gives a good primer about different ways to test your site both on and offline, as well as in different browsers (because they will look different).
chapter 15 talks about actually publishing your site via upload. it kind of beats the topic to death, in my opinion. it's not that complicated after all. it does giev some helpful warnings about how refreshes work...that could be a source of frustration if you don't know what's going on.
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