I have a good idea of the content I want to put on my site, I am just wondering about my designing skills. I am wondering about if there are any sites that give examples of color schemes that work together and will make my page look a bit more professional. Or should I just look at templates and go from there?

you could look at templates, or indeed similar sites to yours, dont copy someones idea, but you can see the efffect that way

Try colorschemer.com
.. Do a screen dump and with Photoshop you get all the nice color scheme you need. Or you search for color scheme software in Google. There's quite a few good ones in the market.

www.colourlovers.com

i can't seem to stop playing with http://kuler.adobe.com

The Adobe tool is wonderful, I love it

Here's another very good color schemer: http://www.steeldolphin.com/color_scheme.html

This site is very good for color schemes too. www.hypergurl.com/colormatch.php