Learn Web design and frontend programming
keefe: http://www.w3schools.com/ This site is a good reference for the W3 standards. Flash is currently most easily coded with AS3. Adobe recently redid the flash VM to behave more like a traditional programming language and did away with most of the movie clip timeline stuff, so AS3 is more like just coding. Very nice UI API as well. Essential AS3 is a good book to learn. http://www.smashingmagazine.com is a good reference for learning design itself. I think jQuery is the current winner, but there is something to be said for GWT as well.