I started learning web design by working with Adobe's Pagemill back
around 1995 or 96. I built my school's website and then got my own
domain, www.olejarz.com in 1997.
I never worked in pure html though I do tweak html when I have to.
After staying with Pagemill for too many years I tried GoLive but
never liked it. Then about three years ago I started using
Dreamweaver. It is a very powerful app and though I do not know many
of the things that it does I am learning little by little and can do
most of the things I need to do.
Back in 1997 when I started my own website I put my personal artwork
on my site. I also worked long and hard at getting my perspective
tutorial on the web. That is where I learned the most about setting
up web pages. The perspective tutorial started as a hypercard program,
an early Mac program, that I learned around 1993 or 94. Learning
hypercard helped me understand the basics about multi-media/web page
design.