I've been working as a web designer for 3 years now - I have no formal training in it, and essentially learnt on the job with a small agency that took me on.
I was lucky.
I've since gone freelance 6 months ago, am really enjoying it, and doing fairly well too... I am however finding certain holes in my understanding and would like some kind of formal training to iron out some of the bad habits I've picked up from where I used to work, as well as learn new techniques... Hence looking for stuff in my area and finding this post.