Well, I feel you were a little harsh in your post, but you're not really wrong. Please forgive the garbled grammar of my original post. When I wrote it, I was writing as though /. was a forum, which I now realize it is not. I should have taken the time to proofread and rewrite before I submitted. For that I apologize.

Let me make my intentions more clear - I would like improve my web design skills, which are rudementary at best. What I wanted to know was where I should begin.

The advice I have received thus far has helped me a great deal. At present, it's not coding I need to learn, it's design. I've decided that I'm going to spend some of my christmas money to pick a few books on XHTML and CSS, and go from there. I'll save all the other stuff for when I actually need to do more than present static information. Thanks to everyone for their help!