Web design, you can learn designing website by reading online forums, thru ebooks and you can watch it over a video. It helps a lot, trust me. I have a cousin who took up BS IT major in designing who studied just for 2 years, yes she didn't finish it because of financial problem thingy yet, she didn't lose hope to learn more, so what she did she read books, search things online which she cannot understand, watched video and tralaaaaa she made it.
Very interesting answers. I think that the best way to learn something is through practice. Yes you need to know terminology and how things work but after that everything is based on practice.
To start learning web design is easy (In my opinion). Just go to w3schools and read threw their tutorials it's super easy. Also you would probably need photoshop if you want quality designs, and tutorials on photoshop can be found on youtube. It looks complicated if you're just starting, but it's easy once you get the hang of it!
if you want to learn web designing , just start with HTML , and withen few day you could learn it all, i will prefer youtube, becoz its easy way to learn for you setp by setp , after that try to make some tamplates in diffrents software, like photoshop , dreamwear, and after that go to php and sql ,
Google may also help you. If you want to learn web design go to http://www.w3schools.com/. That is best place where you can learn html tutorials,JavaScript, CSS, PHP, SQL Tutorial, jQuery Tutorial They will helpful to you.