I guess I won't name the bad online tutors or the books I first bought when I was in your place, but I can tell you that MOST online sources and many books being sold are worse than inadequate, they are terrible and will teach you a lot of bad stuff. Once learned, these habits are hard to change.

Most of them use html code that is deprecated (obsolete and doomed for nonsupport) rather than css for design areas like color, positioning, etc. and use tables improperly for layout. If you follow the old outdated ways your site will be much harder to maintain and have lots of other unwanted qualities as well. Take some time to check this out, especially before spending money to poor resources.

If you can learn well off the computer the w3schools that Rob refers to are excellent, perhaps the best. Another great site http://www.htmldog.com/. The books from http://www.sitepoint.com are all excellent, especially Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS. Go to sitepoint.com and you can download for free the first chapters to get started. You can also get the htmldog tutor in book form. Both of these books can be purchased through Amazon for much less than from the site.

James