Question: I am currently working on my first website. I have no idea where to start on the CSS page, or if there are any standards that I should be following.

I would appreciate any links or first-hand advise.

Answer: 
This is a decent overview:

<http://www.onlinetools.org/articles/cssguides.html>
I have been building websites for 5 years now and still learn a lot by reading this every so often: <http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rendering.html>

Also check out <http://www.zeldman.com> blog on CSS. This guy is a legend in the web world.