Learning more about web design

What learning should I prioritise?

[Sunnydale]

I have been using frontpage and designing my own websites for a few years now, but feel that I would like to move on and develop better more interactive sites so that potentially in the future I could make some money from them.

I have never had any official training and basically have just taught myself what I currently know.

I know I need to learn alot more but am not sure of the best way to go about it, should I prioritise learning HTML or CSS or should I buy Dreamweaver or are there other programmes I should look at such as photoshop, or anything else to work in conjunction with frontpage?

Any advise would be greatly appreciated as I have spent a lot of time on this site and discovered there are many other editors which I am not aware of or their importance.

If anyone could share their thoughts on the best ways to learn and how you have enhanced your knowledge it would be great.

[The Contractor]

Frontpage (no matter who looks down on it) can write clean Valid unbloated HTML just as easy as any of the other editors regardless of what you may hear.

I have seen trash come out of all wysiwyg editors. It is up to the user not to use FP "features" that do bloat the code (just like any other wysiwyg editor).

It can/does also write clean external CSS files. I do not use it, although I did at one time.

I would suggest learning to read the HTML code that is being produced so you have a thorough understanding of HTML. I would also suggest running all HTML through the W3C validator and same with external CSS files. The W3C site is a great site.

[Matt Probert]

I would like to move on and develop better more interactive sites

I recommend you investigate Perl and the CGI...

Matt

[supermanjnk]

I recommend notepad, thats how I learned html, php and sql (asside from reading) I learned strictly by looking at code other people wrote and figuring out what it did.

[topr8]

>>>develop better more interactive sites

master sql - learn about databases as much as you can, this more than anything else will help yo make more interactive sites.