Cascading Style Sheets are everywhere these days, partially due to the rise of "Web 2.0," although it's the other way around-- CSS makes "Web 2.0" possible. But you don't necesarily need to know CSS language to use it. You can just build upon what has already been done. It's easy (kind of)!

• Presentation Slides in: .pptx (MS Office 2007, 3 MB) or .ppt (MS Office 2000+, 4 MB)

• "Cheat": Find a template you like. Play with it.
• Read the code: Match conatiner names to the area you want to change. Locate image design elements. See fonts, sizes, padding, etc. Like any librarian knows, if you don't know what something is, look it up! There are many web design web sites that will explain CSS expressions for you and give you what you need. You never actually have to "learn" CSS (but that would make life easier).
• Experiment: What happens when you change something? What you observe will show you what you need to do. Make new files as you go along at intervals so that you may feel free to change things.
• Test: Different browsers render web pages differently. You'll need to look at it in more than one browser to make sure its O.K. This isn't optional-- you don't know what browser your user will choose. Notepad++
An amazingly useful plain text editor (read: HTML markup, CSS, PHP, etc). Highly recommended.
GIMP
A free image / graphics program (light alternative to Adobe Photoshop). It is free to use, but takes some getting used to.
"Web Developer" Firefox Add-On
This toolbar can disable images, show window size, validate markup, and much more. Requires Firefox of course.
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