Learn HTML & CSS. Use CSS for layout. Then write quality content for your pages that is relevant to what you are promoting. That will take you 90% of the way. The last 10% will take up more of your time than it's worth, so forget it. Spend your time on driving & converting traffic to your new website. When that's working well, start a new site. Lather, rinse, repeat.

One of the best sites is right here..... You are in the Web Design forum, but if you look around the entire site you will see that this is what people are all talking about.

Take your time, read the posts and most of all get active. Don't just sit in this forum, but look at the the others that are available on the site.

Have a Great Day!

You'll get more out of this than all of the utter crap you'll read on SEO forums:
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Guide by Chris Beasley

If you want to learn SEO here it is:

- put your targeted keywords in the Title of your page and 1-2 times in the body

- put content on your website on a regular basis

- get links from other sites to your content

that's it

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Some good info there but experience is often the best teacher

Terry