I have just finished a thorough, intensive learning process HTML, and I've become good at it! I can do CSS, and write XHTML 1.1 compliant websites. In fact, I am designing my own, and I have a pretty good design (although it was more an experiment than anything, and I don't really know what to put on it). It's not quite finished, as I rewrote it three times: once with the Mozilla editor, then with raw code to make it HTML 4.1 compliant, and the third time to make it xhtml 1.1 compliant (CSS only).
You should view it with Mozilla for now, though, as it uses CSS2, and I didn't have time to check it with every browser yet. Also, the Netfirms banner breaks XHTML compliance, so I'll probably switch to another server (and eventually, my own).
http://laukev7.netfirms.com/Also, I have just started to learn PHP, which I will use to write my own guestbook for starters.