Over at www.asp.net they have training videos for free to go along with the free VWD download. To get your feet wet free is always a good idea.
I had forgotten about the landing site, I head right to the homepage from my favorites and skip it. I actually hate it and would like to get rid of it, but the head coach loves his cardinal and wants to keep it. I pretty much just am a slave to doing what the coaches want on the site. I just posted it to show what a newbie can do using dreamweaver.