I started out with the Oreily Head First HTML and CSS as a starting point. http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfhtml/ http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfhtml

I started out with the Oreily Head First HTML and CSS as a starting point. http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfhtml/ http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfhtml/ Work through the examples using WAMP or MAMP and a text editor, using Firefox to view your work, once you get the basics down learn how to use the Firebug fire extension for Firefox to inspect your own work and other websites. Once you finish the examples in the book build your own website or pick out a project you want to build. You learn the most trying to build something new. Then improve on it. "I want my site to do this or have this element." StackOverflow.com is a great place to search for solutions, techniques. I like Tizag.com as well for specific samples. I also did a lot of tutorials on http://net.tutsplus.com/ http://net.tutsplus.com/. From there . . . There is a Head First Javascript book you can work on after picking up some HTML CSS skills. And Head first jQuery would be the next step. jQuery is used on a lot of websites and something you should learn. (I didn't use those two books, I learned JS and jQuery from tutorials and stackoverflow.com.) From there I moved on to Head First PHP/mySQL to learn some server side programming and database skills. Along the way the key to learning is creating and editing websites for yourself or projects that you need/want. I progressed from websites to web applications to mobile websites and mobile apps. Wordpress is a skill you should pick up as well. There is a head first book for that too. I would recommend learning HTML, CSS, check out HTML5 and CSS3 as well, Javascript, jQuery, jQuery Mobile (for mobile web sites), PHP, mySQL once you have the basics of those start learning Ruby on Rails. Good luck in 2013.