AkinaGod

I am trying to learn web design. I want to do animation, gifs, tricks, and basically build really cool custom web sites. I will be going to school in a year or so but want to get a head start. Is there an online site I can check out that has really straight forward educational processes that show me how to do some more advanced stuff for web design using flash, dreamweaver, photoshop, Fireworks, etc? I don't know too much basic HTML but I learn best when shown things more advanced so anything you know for free online would be great. Thanks.