Moving Data around HTML pages with JSP

Ok, I admit I never programmed a web site before. But I've recently realized the potential in using an internal website to handle administrative tasks such as tracking jobs, etc. Previously I tried doing such with a Swing based approach as this is what I was familiar with, but after consulting with a fellow programmer I chose to set up a webpage with hibernate on top of a MySql db. So far so good, however, I am looking for a crash course in HTML and JSP to get me going.

An excellent guide for this is on IBMs site under JSP Best practices. I am going through this and hopefully it will answer all my questions...