Is there a difference between learning HTML (XML, CSS) and learning “Web design”?
Knowing XHTML and CSS without the fancy editors is a very good thing. Go to W3 online schools to take you to the next level. Yes, Dreamweaver and Front Page do a lot of the dirty work for you, but your knowledge of the code CAN take you to a whole new level beyond that. Flash is also a cool application that can produce wonderful pages…but it costs. If you are a student (or know one), you can get Studio 8 from Adobe for a couple hundred – which is a heck of a deal. Remember – content in HTML and presentation in CSS. If you haven’t learned that yet, keep going!