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Like others have said, web design tutorials are prolific on the web. But personally, I work a lot better with a bound book in front of me. Coming from a slight code-oriented background and having just recently focused on learning HTML, "Web Design in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly Press worked really well for me as a place to start. It explains things very well while making the assumption that you're willing to get your hands dirty with the code.
From there I branched out into O'Reilly's "Cascading Style Sheet Cookbook" and "JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook" which are more about providing "recipes" to solve coding problems, but each recipe comes with an in-depth discussion which I found to be very revealing. A kind of learn-by-example type of thing.
Right now I'm working with PHP and MySQL with plenty promising results. For this I am using Wiley Publishing's "PHP5 and MySQL Bible." And while their coverage of basic PHP is on par with the O'Reilly books (that is to say excellent), I've found their coverage of MySQL to be somewhat lacking and the more advanced PHP topics to be rushed. For my current project, I've had to rely a bit more on online tutorials.
Hope this helps!
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