so much to know!

I am by no mean's done but I find http://w3schools.com/ very helpful and just playing around with code and making practice site's to play with.

Yes, it's overwhelming. You'll feel like that for a good 6-9 months. Gotta stick with it. You'll do something, forget how you did it, and learn it again, forget it again, and learn it yet again. It'll probably start sticking at that point.

Take it slow at first. Learn semantic HTML and CSS. Than jQuery/JS, and than PHP/Ruby/Phyton etc. You'll still be learning new things about HTML and CSS. It won't ever stop. It's evolving so fast you'll never be done learning.

After you get over your 6-9 month hump, things start clicking really fast. I'm doing stuff with code I never dreamed I would have been able to do before. Code that thinks for itself, handles different situations. Pretty cool stuff.

Along the way you'll learn more about web security, speed factors, best practices, etc. Just start coding something, it's a great way to learn. Go make a ton of mistakes, and than learn from them. My mistakes have been my best teacher.

Also, W3 schools is not a good place to learn from. Especially for beginners. I used the site a lot before I knew better. However, the coding community seems to have a sour taste for W3 schools from what I learned is they have a lot of outdated or poor practices to use as examples. They don't update enough, and they piggyback their credentials with the official W3C which they have nothing to actually do with. There are better sites.

http://www.htmldog.com seems to be well favored. I personally LOVE http://css-tricks.com. I use that site daily.

Also, another big suggestion is to watch the weekly Treehouse Show videos on iTunes or Youtube. Very helpful to explore the resources they provide every week. This is the youtube channel for Treehouse. http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqHktcPJV7C7T3e9Cg4T4iw

Just stick with it.

I've felt overloaded with information as well. What has really helped me is to write down or figure out what you want to do with this information. For me I thought of an app a few months ago with certain features.

Now I can see the app and what it looks like in my head I'm starting to make it in Ruby on Rails. I fail often but for me this is the fastest way to learn in this field. In a few months time I should have a live app with geo-targeting, automatic image uploads, multiple authors and a monthly payment subscription. These are my goals, everything else I don't need to learn at the this moment in time.

If you are learning HTML and CSS then figure out a simple website in your head, or draw it on paper. Forget all the fancy features that you can add from the web, believe me it's a full time job just to keep up with the latest.

Start simple, keep focused on what you want to build in your head. Build it. Repeat slowly adding more features.

That's what's working for me :)

Hope that helps.

Enjoy everyday of learning. Don't worry about the end of the road. Focus on the Journey. If you really want to do this and can see yourself doing it, Guess what you can!