I am familiar with the W3 school, I actually have a link to them on my support page, which i am still constructing. Here it is in the meantime as a reference:
http://www.innovatewebdevelopment.com/support.html (I still have a lot to do, but in the meantime you can begin using it if you would like. Its basically a bunch of tutorials and helpful links.)

I would recommend w3, but only after you begin laying the foundation first. Here is my first recommend via spinny who loves the "head first series". One of the titles is like learn html and css. Its a pretty good series that using very little tech language and uses a lot of real world examples. So you might like that as a good beginning source.

Let me briefly explain the difference between CSS and HTML. Think of HTML as all of your content that you see on a page, like main area, links, sub sections, etc. Think of CSS as the way that you style or layout your website content. CSS designs HTML. So, as to the menu question, you still have to use SSI, but you should have no problem using it since you wont have to worry about VSD rearing its ugly head at you. All CSS will do for your menu's is style them. If you go to my support website I have a list of links on the right that are resource links. They are all subdivided into sections, like html, css, javascript, etc. You can go to those websites to get good information.

I would spend most of my time learning css. html is very easy to pick up, since it has very little code involved, but css is all coding, so it will take a little while to pick it up. But, very worth it.

Hope this gets you started. Let the learning begin. Oh, that reminds me, feel free to contact me through my website if you need me for anything beyond the scope of these forums. I can give you my email then - don't want to post it and get spammed.


Cheers!

Same here on the contact thing John, feel free to contact me via my business site and we can do emails from there also. I have a ton of sites bookmarked for CSS and HTML but they aren't really tutorial sites. I did use this one though which was a really good way to start off learning HTML if that helps:

http://www.webtechu.com/

This place teaches HTML from beginning on up, and basic CSS. It used to do more than basic CSS but looks like they took that part out. It's a good place to get started though with ground up training and it's free too. They also do Paint Shop Pro classes if you are into image editing at all that's a good place to learn some basics up to some advanced things on that too.

Nice site too Eric, I bookmarked it also for future reference, thanks for sharing that

wc3 schools are great too as Eric says, and definitely something to use later when you have a better grasp of the concepts of what HTML & CSS really is and does as it has some great tutorials for both languages.

http://www.lynda.com/ offers a lot of free tutorials and classes also as well as subscriber classes. Some of these are pretty good for free classes.
http://www.lynda.com/home/ViewCourses.aspx takes you to a list of all their free courses.

http://www.echoecho.com/html.htm is another site with a ton of tutorials on it also. I haven't tried these, but from what I saw it didn't look too bad.

Thanks Jo Ann. Feel free to contact me as well, if I can help with anything.

Hi All,

Thanks for all your good advice and support. With all the support and resources you have provided here, how can I say "No." I'm moving forward on this beginning today.

I get the sense of a "group hug" looming.

I'm sure you will be hearing from me soon.

Thanks to you all,

Awwwww hugs back atcha John and you're quite welcome. Good luck on it and feel free to let us know how you're doing on it too and of course anytime you need help just ask away and we'll do our best to get ya rolling