I will be making a website for school (Assignment for intro to tech), and I was wondering if anyone has any tips for designing a website (Not a fill-in-the-blank one either, since I think that would get me an A) Or any other form of web design.

Well first of all I already suggested a few things for you via Xfire and you said your going to get some books. Which will really help in the long run more than online tutorials in some extent. However an online tutorial can be helpful at that. Another good bit of advice would be from this link.
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Well, I am ordering those books, and I have a little,very basic idea of HTML (Spent one hour on it, lol) I also have a copy of adobe dream weaver from school, and I probably will talk to you via Xfire if that is okay, since we use it at school I noticed that you could start all the different pages, and even view the code.