I'm a 2 and a half month home grow and home schooled web designer.With a high interest in getting into web dev.
I started by hitting google with my questions and downloading web pages on any and all tutorials i needed from photoshop,to marcomedia suite,from html to php. Basic and advanced tutorials.
And for two months i have been at it day in day out,developing myself,ok also being mentored by two other web developer friends of mine.
So now those two months have given me a myriad of insight to design,now i want to pass the info and tutorials i've learnt out to people who might need it.
For knowledge in writing and understanding the codes from html to php. Check
http://www.w3school.com ps before you go there,look at
http://www.landofcode.com. This will look at the basics and run the teaching from scratch,like a baby learning to walk,will w3 will put it to you like niit.
Now once your done with the way of the code.
Check out
http://www.tutorialised.com its either an s or z.
This will start u up in the way of the design.
Pick photoshop,fireworks,flash or just pick cs4 which ever is your design preference.
This site will teach u to design like teaching a kid to walk,one step at a time. Its tutorials are not only fun to do,but tech to create.
If you can learn to create some of their amazing arts and also learn to created the using other graphic softwares,then u have achieved something.
For me i'm still on the site learning and using fireworks to create the graphics on the tutorials for photoshop.