There are two main areas that you'd need to learn: front-end development and back-end development. Front-end development knowledge points: HTML, CSS and JavaSc

There are two main areas that you'd need to learn: front-end development and back-end development. Front-end development knowledge points: HTML, CSS and JavaScript Back-end development knowledge points: Server administration, databases and interpreted languages. I'm biased towards open-source technologies, so I'd recommend you learn Django, Ruby on Rails or one of the PHP frameworks (personal preference is Symfony). Then tie that in with MySQL or PostgreSQL. Most of these technologies have great documentation, especially Django and Symfony, and shouldn't be too hard to get started with. For learning front-end development the quickest way would be to go and buy a book rather than attempt to follow the myriad of tutorials out there. I'd recommend the standardistas book: http://www.webstandardistas.com/book/ http://www.webstandardistas.com/book/ After learning the knowledge in the book, follow on to using javascript libraries such as jQuery and YUI to get some funky front-end interaction working. Finally, tie all the knowledge in by attempting a few pet projects.