my first site was made using www.geocities.com, it was great...tonnes of spinning gif images n cool midi music in every page...
that introduced me into making sites and gave me a basic idea of how things worked.......once i had all that figured out i started improving and trying new tricks and things...
it was a good place to start....worked great for me, im making money designing sites now :)
but i wouldnt recomend that......get a free host (lycos or something) and a html editor..frontpage, dreamweaver etc and play around....once you understand how to use the program learn some html.......http://funky-chickens.com was the first tutorial site i visited when i was starting and for some reason the url has always stuck in my mind.......its got alot of useful info for beginers.
//mossy