The Learning Curve

what road to take....

[brotherhood of LAN]

Hello folks, nice morning! ;)

I posted this because I would like everyones opinion on what to learn. This is a sort of spin off from the "webmaster basics" thread, if not applicable to that thread itself.

However, im not the newest newbie, I do know *something* (debatable), but to cap it off, I've been a member here for about 6 months. I've learned lots - so since im a WMW member im better than the average webmaster. ;)

So I have a basic knowledge of HTML, SEO, PHP, ASP, SSI, SQL etc etc etc :) I know nothing comprehensively.

What I do know is that I have time :) When I get a laptop I aim to be absorbin' the sun aswell as your thoughts on this ;)

What road to go down? I aim to generate a F/T wage from my webmastering escapades, and naturally, would like to back that up with knowledge. My HTML is fine (debatable), and I doubt I could make any real progress fine tuning this (or at least focusing more on it).

So what would you do? Should I be learning more about PHP / ASP ? Perhaps a little more about databases? What things should I be anticipating that will be on the web in a few years time. I guess thats a 2nd question to the first.

As you can see, its a broad question, but any elaborations would be great :)

[knighty]

If you're not doing it already, get a good grip on dynamic web sites.

PHP/MySql is prolly your best bet, pick up a good book and try out a dummy site, then master the basics.

[Birdman]

You didn't mention CSS. Definately good to know. I'm still working on it. Being able to make site-wide changes on one stylesheet is great. I think I'll go to databases next.
Birdman

[topr8]

databases

learn more sql

[korkus2000]

If you really want to look ahead I would look into datacubes and mdx quering language. I am having to do that stuff right now with xml and xslt. If you can get into that you will be in high demand.