order of learning php html etc...?

Question

i wanna start learning web design and i just wanna know what is the best way to start learning for ex i know that is should prob start with 1.HTML (HTML 4 Dummies)

2. ? CSS ? XML ? PHP ? JAVA ? FLASH ? anyother things ?

+ can you give me some useful book names if you know some and some website programing and grapshics like Photoshop adobe etc..

Thank you,
Vlad

Answer 1

Don't bother with books.
Go to www.w3schools.com.
Learn the basics of HTML, do the exercises.
Then, learn a bit of Javascript
Then, PhP
Then, MyQSL
Then, AJAX
And you have ALL the programming knowledge you may need!
Don't bother with Dreamweaver or ANY other "web editors": they make CRAP code you will not understand.
Use Notepad to write your code, and a simple FTP program to upload your website to the server.
Check your site ON-LINE, using IE7, Firefox and Opera (the 3 major browsers).
Good luck!

Answer 2

Learn them in whatever order suits your needs, and your learning style. It'll never be a case of "ok first learn PHP... ok done, now I'll learn..." because at the end of the day you can never learn everything about a subject. I would recommend learning them as you encounter them, and keep brushing up your skills on all of them all the time.

Answer 3

There are also tutorials to be found on YouTube. Just go to YouTube.com and search for what you are looking for, such as PHP and tutorial.

Check out my blog at www.garyfarnam.org

Answer 4

these are the books i read when i was started php

http://www.amazon.com/PHP-Fast-Easy-Web-Development/dp/076153055X
http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Development-Developers-Library/dp/0672329166/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-4916238-3486333?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190807268&sr=1-1

for photoshop

http://www.photoshoplabs.com/

you could find a lot of tutorials in forums