Can someone direct me to maybe some documentation or tutorials on how to build a site with node.js. Currrently, I am using mostly jQuery, PHP, mysqli prepared statements, and a
http://screenr.com/mAL is the intro screencast to Express JS - watch it full screen to read what's being typed. More of these are linked from the Express github page https://github.com/visionmedia/express
http://howtonode.org/ is a good blog, though some of the articles might be a little out of date because it started when node was so new.
http://thechangelog.com/tagged/node.js features good links to node libraries.