What are the best programming langauges I should learn in order to build good websites?

PHP? ASP? What are the top languages I should learn? I already learned HTML.

What are the best programming langauges I should learn in order to build good websites?
There are many ways to go, but I recommend





XHTML - don't bother with old-school HTML. Learn the standard of the future (and the present) now.





CSS - If you've graduated from HTML to XHTML, you'll need CSS to provide the layout and design tools to make your XHTML pages look great.





JavaScript - This is a great first programming language (XHTML and CSS don't technically count as programming languages.) It's pretty easy, and it's quite useful. You don't have to buy anything, and it's a key part of advanced web development in AJAX.





PHP - At some point your web pages will require more than you can accomplish with client-side tools like XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. At that point you'll need to add a server-side language to your list. PHP is reasonably easy to learn, extremely powerful, and totally free. (and it works fine on most free and low-cost web servers - unlike ASP.NET)





MySQL - By the time you're creating commercial sites, you'll need some sort of database package. MySQL is popular because it's free (notice a theme?) powerful, and works flawlessly with the other tools mentioned here.





AJAX - This technology is still a buzzword, but it looks like it's here to stay. These techniques can be used to make your pages act more like desktop applications.





That's a lot to learn, but you don't need it all at once. Go in the order recommended here. If you're looking for help, I wrote a book (on sale this Spring) covering all these technologies and more. Keep an eye out for it, and let me know if you have any problems.





Good luck to you!
Reply:Java would be helpful.
Reply:You've taken the first step in learning HTML. If you want good-looking web sites, then CSS is another essential.





As for programming, PHP lets you do server side stuff (like manage account data bases and stuff) and Javascript lets you do client side stuff (like manipulate forms and visibility of items etc.).
Reply:Both ASP and PHP are good, it really depend on how easy you find each one and what websites you are trying to built.
Reply:Yeah, PHP and ASP are both powerful serverside languages for creating dynamic content and even more powerful when used with SQL to connect to data in a backend database server.





But FIRST...you need to learn basic HTML and XHTML along with CSS for the client side scripting - javascript is also helpful to know.
Reply:PHP will set you up for almost everything. I would learn that.





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Reply:It's according to what you want the website to do.


I'd reccomend PHP and ASP in the long run. But I'd lean more towards ASP as a starter because it can lead easily into .net if you want to get into that sort of stuff.





HTML of course is a good start, it's the basics but to even build upon your basic HTML knowlegde I'd reccomend looking into XML and XHTML.

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