From among the hundreds of VB sites, the following are large with many links, and all contain material for beginners:
John Smiley teaches Visual Basic and maintains a regularly updated site; books and web-based courses available at http://www.johnsmiley.com
Carl and Gary's VB Home Page http://www.cgvb.com/
A comprehensive site with lots of links http://www.vb-web-directory.com/
A site aimed at novices http://www.vbexplorer.com/
Gary Beene's VB information centre http://www.vbinformation.com/
The Australian VB Users' Group is a good site for local contacts and information http://www.avbug.com.au/
For free code and free animations go to http://www.freecode.com/ and also http://www.animfactory.com
Shareware is available from http://www.stockpile.com/
http://www.ms-vb.com Searchable VB tutorials and source code, as well as downloads, links and a Questions and Answers section all free of charge. An extensive resource for any VB programmer.
http://abstractvb.com/ is a large site with lots of useful ideas and extensive links list.
The Interface Hall of Shame illustrates hundreds of design faults with examples from commercial products including some Microsoft products and web sites. Well worth while for teaching programming and web page design. Scroll through the examples at http://www.iarchitect.com/mshame.htm
If you prefer the positive approach, go to the Interface Hall of Fame, http://www.iarchitect.com/mfame.htm
Making animated gifs - very useful for web page design, but NOT for Visual Basic, http://rtlsoft.com/animagic/
For someone new to the net a good introductory site is http://www.learnthenet.com/english/index.html
For primary students, an introduction to HTML and lots of other fun links for kids at http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/kids/
Here is a VB Resource Listing of some of the best VB sites http://www.labmice.net/vb.htm
Visual Basic Resource is a site where you may pick up some good ideas, find access to freeware and shareware, and ask questions from other VB users at http://robinmckay.topcities.com/visualbasic.html
Watch this space for more great VB and Webpage links