have no basic knowledge in this area,just have a will

After years of staying home with my kids I am intending to open a small freelance business next year. Having been a Marketing Director, I am very familiar with art-directing. Through charity work, I’ve learned how to piece together a brochure or pop up a website (not bad considering I have no formal training)

Now, in preparation for next year, I would like to self teach myself the proper way. Question is, where do I start learning…

Photoshop? Illustrator? Dreamweaver?

Or, do I learn web development fundamentals first then move onto perfecting the above?

I have tutorials bookmarked and with my basic knowledge am confident I can learn … I just don’t know where to start! Thanks for your help :0)

I have a basic knowledge about it and i also find i have a passion about it, can anybody suggest websites that can help me to build good electronics projects like alarm bells, torches, and move on to learn about chips and importantly teach me how to program microprocessors writing software in plain hardware(now that’s really hi-fi). I know pretty well about logic gates and so on…

I have some basic knowledge of website building and grahics, but I am missing a good software to make a most possible professional looking website. Do you have some recommendations?