I think that learning css is might be easy, you can easily learn these, and also learn that how to control the style and layout of multiple Web pages all at once. Well it provides a set of rules describing how a document should appear. There are many online tutorials are available you can easily go through that, and can easily learn css.
Get proficient with dreamweaver.
I'll be a bit more helpful and suggest w3schools.com as a good starting point.
Skip this step completely. DW is great in code view (I use it as a text editor), but you really don't want to be using it as a wysiwyg editor.
Any books you would recommend?
CSS Missing Manual is good also.
CSS Zen Garden is a nice site / book for inspiration
Created my first CSS sheet(okay its only coloring the text of h1 and paragraphs but hey \o/).