Need Guidance

[ChurroV]

I'm starting this thread because I have not learned nearly enough to become the web designer i want to be, but I don't know what to try next. I'll tell you what I do know and what I don't, and I'd like to get some idea of what I should learn next.

What I know:
All basic CSS and some intermediate CSS
Most basic HTML stuff
Good grasp of Box Model

What I don't know:
PHP
Flash
Javascript
Basically any language other than HTML, CSS (don't know if those count as languages), and some Visual Basic
How to make interactive web pages
How to obtain and use the data a user puts in a form, or how to make such a form (talking about things like address, credit card, email, username, password, etc)

So, given this outline of where I stand as a designer, what's next for me?

 

[DesignerBill]

Since you have a good grasp of HTML and CSS, I would say learn JavaScript and the document object model (DOM). That is what you need to make pages with user interaction and animation. Once you feel comfortable with that, you might want to study JQuery which makes it possible to include all sorts of special effects.

All that will keep you busy for a while, but next would probably be server-side scripting and forms processing with PHP.