Good thinking...

maybe a word with "dani" (the ever so helpfuland enlightened cscgal?)... you could maybe do a "live walkthrough" of someone coming into the area of web design, and sort of "blog-it" - should be pretty cool to see how things change!

Never be afraid to ask for som e assistance... and if you like, we can always give you some of the basic setups/starts that folk use quite often (I myself have basially used the same techniques/tricks for the last year).
Once you have learnedsomething, youthen need to enhance it and pratice it...then it becomes second nature - no thought, no looking thungs up etc.

It will come with much time and effort... think of it this way...there are many out there that claim the title of being a "web-designer"... (I'll get shot for this!), but as far as I'm concerned, most of them are simple liars... using software to do all the work for them, with little or no understanding of what does what, why or how are not designers!

But so long as you are learning... you are earning