What is the best way to learn web design/ blog design?

Question by Kare E. D.: What is the best way to learn web design/ blog design?
I am an artist. I graduated from college with my BFA about 5 years ago. I am currently interested in learning how to design web sites/ blogs. Where can I find good and trustworthy material to learn about these types of designs? Any websites or books would be helpful. Thanks.

Best answer:

Answer by AwakenLion
Well, first you need to know what to look for. As the site gets bigger and better, you will have to know more of these:
HTML
XHTML
CSS
JavaScript
Ajax
PHP or Perl or Python or Ruby or ASP or ASP.NET or JSP or Coldfusion
SQL with MySQL or Oracle or SQL Server or some other DBMS
Adobe Flash/Flex/Actionscript
XML/XML languages

Then, you need to know what software to use. I can help you find their sites if you need, but here’s a list of their names: NetBeans IDE, HTML-Kit, Eclipse IDE, OpenOffiice.org, FileZilla, Paint.NET, Inkscape, Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer.

Then, you need to know where to learn it. For that, check out these sites:

http://www.w3schools.com/

http://www.ebooks-space.com/

http://www.scribd.com/

http://www.ncsacademy.com/default.cfm?ref=3043

Feel free to email me if you have any questions. Good luck!

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