Here are a few websites containing web building and design information and tutorials.  You might find them useful as you create your website, because every person should possess their own personal website, not the cheap FaceBook and MySpace falseness.

The Opera Web Standards Curriculum is a free online tutorial course takes students from complete beginner to having a solid grounding in standards-based web design, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript development.  This excellent course was created by Opera Software (makers of the eponymous web browser) to promote web standards, efficiency, ease of maintenance, accessibility, device compatibility, and search optimization.

W3Schools is a collection of free HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, XML, XHTML, WAP, ASP, SQL tutorials with lots of working examples and source code. Their web site is a useful reference on a wide range of topics.

The World Wide Web Consortium, also known as W3C, develops the standards, protocols, and guidelines that make the world wide web operational. They also offer the Markup Validator, a free service that helps check the validity of your web pages against the web language standards.