[Alex P]

php OR ASP what is best to learn to make a website and why?

[Hybr!d]

php is more popular and the better choice in my opinion.

[serverguy]

ASP would be pointless, it is old technology.

ASP.NET maybe, but then you're limited to a Microsoft platform. PHP will run on pretty much anything.

[Hybr!d]

Actually, html would probably be a better start over either of them.

[serverguy]

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

Actually, html would probably be a better start over either of them.

Good point

[MJM]

Personally the way I learnt it was in the following order:
HTML (with styling)
CSS (seperate contents and style! Plus different "themes" can be done, increased compatibility and sometimes decreased)
XHTML (then went back to standard HTML, just without style elements, no real point to XHTML)
JavaScript (allows some nifty things - just takes some time to get to know some of the tricks so it works with JS off)
PHP and htaccess (PHP at first just for little things, reduce load times, little email scripts and htaccess mostly for IE bugs and nice subdirs and such instead of the often ugly PHP ?=)
MySQL (at some point it made sense to transition certain aspects to databases - at first overdoing it, but eventually finding a decent balance)

Anyways, that's a short of what I did, still no PHP master, jsut basic stuff. I tend to look up how to secure certain things from injection and XSS and such just because it's fun.

[Hybr!d]

Yeah, I can't code from scratch, not that I have tried but I can edit almost any code - tweak and test.

[thingie2]

php I would say, I read or heard inthe news over the last few days that despite the "credit crunch" php programmers are in higher demand than ever before and are getting paid very well for it. I don't know how long this will last for, or how widespread it is though.