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No, not really. I learned CSS by finding a bunch of online tutorials, and every few days I would apply what I had learned by doing the CSS Zen Garden thing. I also read Transcending CSS, which is old and was published before CSS3, but it gives some insight into how visual designers approach CSS. At times, it's hilarious, because technical developers hate CSS because it's a shitty language that was designed for visual designers; but visual designers also hated it because it's a shitty language that was designed by technical developers, lol!
But yeah, I'd suggest maybe reading that book and also going through the Net Ninja CSS tutorials and applying what you've learned to CSS Zen Garden. I'm coming at this stuff as a programmer, though. I have no idea how designers approach this stuff, and I feel like this is their domain.
Sorry, ran out of time. Here's the rest of my answer:
If you are more of an engineer and not that interested in design, but in Front-End Development, start with Bulletproof Web Design, following up with Transcending CSS.
For JavaScript, read You Don't Know JS and Eloquent Javascript. (The second edition of Eloquent is going to be released on 17th of november, if you can't wait until then, there's a first edition aswell)
A very important design book I forgot aswell: The Design of Everyday Things.
Good luck on your way to mastering Web Design!
you could start with dreamweaver, but its not free and you'll have to learn it - however knowledge of it pays off. But there are alternatives...
beginner HTML - check out kompozer - http://kompozer.net/ this will let you get away with not learning anything...
more advanced? - lot of my developers use HTML-KIT http://www.htmlkit.com/
In the agencies I've been in - no one uses Dreamweaver, they're all in things like HTML-kit (which is really popular it seems) and some were using plugins for ECLIPSE.
CSS - without question. start here: http://www.csszengarden.com/
Read this book if you can: http://www.amazon.com/Transcending-CSS-Fine-Art-Design/dp/0321410971/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255578225&sr=8-2
avoid tables at all costs unless you have data that actually needs to be in table form..but don't style with them.
Read this book if you can: http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/0321344758/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255578275&sr=1-1
as far as flash goes, its a fantastic thing to know. are you into code? if so learn AS3 - its where all flash is going. If you want easier flash to learn, the "timeline based" standard flash would suit you well.
Also - check out javascript animation - things like JQUERY make stuff possible that looks like flash, but isn't. very cool.
and if you don't want to do any of this - just go get a template somewhere ( http://www.templatemonster.com/ ) and fill it in. get some photos from istock and poof - Mcwebsite. slap some google analytics code into the site and you now have tracking for your Mcwebsite.
My experience? - I produced quite a few large company websites (+$80,000.00 sites), and have worked with and hired designers and developers many times. I personally don't do any of the things they do, but I know what tools they choose to use in professional situations.
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