You might want to see if a local community college is offering any classes. It is nice to have a local community of students to work with and review your work and share techniques.
I'm looking into taking a web design course (rather than just a tutorial) and those provided by the IWA-HWG look good. Does anyone have an idea of how good these courses are, or an idea of another place to take such a course.

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