[Randman]

As the headline said, I'm looking to learn about page design on the web side. I have plenty of professional experience on published page design and layout but am pretty much a noob on the web side.

So, any ideas/suggestions on where to start first?

[davesimondotcom]

Start by learning HTML, which is pretty easy. Then learn CSS to contol how things look. A couple of books to consider:

Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman
The Zen of CSS Design by Dave Shea

Neither of these is a technical manual, rather lead by example.

Sites that are useful:

csszengarden.com
stylegala.com
alistapart.com

Valid XHTML/CSS is a bit more difficult to learn to start with compared with layout in something like Dreamweaver, but the rewards are worth the extra work.

[Tesseract]

mezzoblue.com
stopdesign.com
meyerweb.com

and again, because it's so good:
alistapart.com

[davesimondotcom]

Yeah, mezzoblue is Dave Shea's site, and Doug Bowman (stopdesign) is great too.

Erik Meyer is a CSS guru.