Thanks Krillz, falkencreative, and Stef!
I appreciate your responces very much. I have a lot of ideas on the table as to what I wish to learn. Thus far I plan on learning how to install a few CMS engines, Javascript (which I studied for a while before), PHP and the study of web usability. I want to make my pages both designed properly & coded well, as mentioned above. I would also like to study web accesability (making webpages available for handycapped) as well.
To make a proper portfolio, how should I format it? I currently have what courses I have taken here at my high school web design based, and a few courses i've taken online. I'm yet to do any free-lance work because I seem to get shuved aside when the time comes to pick a designer. I am going to be creating a portfolio website shortly, which I plan to put all of what I know onto it as documentation.
I wanted to attend Full Sail university, however it is quite expensive and from the tune of many forums - it isn't well liked. I would be paying them back till the day I died
I've used a few popular editors, most credibly Adobe Dreamweaver. However, I am [ironicly] in Frontpage class. I think i'll get to know a few editors and CMS systems.
Thanks for the advice!
-Jeff