I'm certified CIW Associates, but it doesn't really mean much of anything. <.<
I'm not very experienced in it, but Dream Weaver really makes it easy, not much experience required to use it. Pricey though, if I recall right.
But in the class I took for it we didn't do anything, erm, useful I guess lol. We all worked together to make and maintain an elemenraty school's site, and our own school's sites too of course. Never really dealt with things like pay-pal or anything like that I suppose. It almost felt like working with ms paint.
So I don't give myself any credit for being certified in web design tbh.
Dream Weaver helps you with the tags though, soooo easy. You don't have to know much of anything about html, just slightlyyyy what you want it to do, I think it even gave a list of the right tags to use when you start to type it.
The class we used was with prosoft training, prometric, I think. If you were interested. I don't remember the class being toooo expensive, but then again the teacher was a genie at making other people pay most of the costs for anything, she raised at least 65k i think for our robotics team. :x
Goodluck with the site. Hope you get it all figured out.