I don't need any training on a professional level or anything, just on a personal level.

Are there any good inexpensive schools, teach yourself kits, etc., especially in the areas of HTML, PHP and MySQL?

www.w3schools.com to learn HTML and basic PHP and for MySql try: http://www.clockwatchers.com/mysql_main.html, these are good, free, online tutorials. You could also visit your local library for more on these topics.

When I was teaching myself html I found this site, Webmonkey - http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/ VERY useful.

Good luck!

K-

If you Google 'HTML Tutorials' you should find quite a few free resources.

I never bought a book.

Either it is Google or Newsgroups or forums such as this.

there are tons of materials online and if i am satisfied, I say 'thank you' by clicking their sponsors.

www.sitepoint.com

I took all my courses online from w3schools.com.

Another thumbs up for w3schools. Excellent site for quick reference too.

yeah i would reccomend w3schools or web monkey, those were the best way to learn it I found

another good site for resources is devguru as well

-Liam

I wouldn't recommend WebMonkey, as they are horribly outdated.

I would like to suggest Spoono.com and their sister site, TutorialForums.com (which is currently undergoing construction to make it even better)

Cheers,
Josh

When i first started web design, i had a hard time following manuals even looking at a tutorial was giving me headaches. Back in the day i use to use a Drag-n-Drop WYSIWYG program called Hot Metal, which i believe is still in development. what i did was saved the sites content and opened them in Hot Metal, then i started playing with the code, putting things in place, then started writing my own. This process is a little lengthy in time but eventually i do know and understand pretty much a lot of HTML and the functionality of many tags.

Alot of programs like FP put unneeded tags in your code. but they are good programs to choose to start from to see how codes placed to see how things line up and all.

Have fun with it, thats what makes the learning process fun and easier, dont treat it like work!

www.evrsoft.com has a nice free html editor thats great for hand-coders

the site that I started learning on is htmlgoodies.com. Some of the stuff on there is getting a little bit out of date now, but in terms of having something that anyone can understand it is great, my mom even understood what was going on with the explanations on there. The guy that wrote most of the tutorials is no longer creating them, but all of his old ones are still there. Great site, I check it and w3schools whenever I need a quick reference.