Css Am I On The Right Track?

I use to do HTML coding a few years back. Stopped in 2002. I believe CSS was just getting started, or I just hadn't heard about it. Anyway, I'm back in the saddle. My ultimate goal was and now is again to become a computer programmer. I love the web and all of its possibilities and so I thought that the web would be a great avenue to take. I'm going to school and hope that the web stuff I do on the side can get me some money or a foot in the door. I know CSS isn't a programming language, but I was just wondering what you all think. Should I start out with XHTML and CSS or something heavier like PHP?Thanks for your input in advance.

The web is mostly rendered in HTML and CSS in the end. JavaScript is used to support them and add on more functionality. You are better off if you understand these three core elements for web. After that you may required server side scripting such as PHP, JSP, JSF, Asp, and any others. You may also need to learn databases along side these server side scripting. Understand the 3 core languages for web and how they all relate to each other. This will help you quickly determine what you need in order to complete a task. If you know where to look and what to look for you can do just about anything.

PHP relies heavy on HTML for web development, so unless you already know enough HTML to get by, you should consider XHTML and a little CSS. However, if you're just going to go into PHP-GTK or PHP-Qt or command-line, then you can dive right into PHP without worry of not knowing XHTML and CSS. Since you have already done some HTML work in the past, you should at least get into XHTML to refresh your memory and update yourself on some of today's syntax, and then move onto server-side scripting.

CSS is a must I say.. It's the way of the web now so learning a little CSS is always good.

Thanks for the replies so far guys

I think the basics to everything is Html and Css. If you know well css you could make very good things on design. Then I suggest learning php andf javascript which are great programming languages which help you make web development more user friendly and make your websites more communicative. I think that web development is never ended but this main 4 are the most important, Html, css js, and php. Better start on php.

Once upon a time, css was used for just controlling the font of the web page. In recent times, css was used to control the layout of a page. In some of the open source application like joomla, css have replace html tables in laying out the page.So I would say, go for html, javascript and css first. Then move on to xhtml, xml, and some server side scripting language like php, dot net etc. And if possible, round it off with Java.

i agree with everyone ...

HTML and CSS are the basics...

after that you can move to java scripts...which is work like a back up...to them

fixing errors or adding effects...

after that you can move to PHP or ASP

ASP.NET and .net framework now used widely...

you can start with DREAMWEAVER for learning PHP

especially if you want to go deep to learn database imean MYSQL which is used with PHP

also if you love animations

you can learn flash macromedia first and be more professional and learn action script...

also you can mix flash with PHP to make greats web sites...

there is a lot of books and tutorials in the net about CSS

i think this wesite is very useful to begin

http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp