Building web pages, need advice?

I use to be pretty good at building web pages about 7 years ago, but never kept up with the lastest technology. I would like to get back into doing them again and doing graphic designs too. I would like to know what software, books, maybe online schools, that can help me get back into building web pages again?Building web pages, need advice?
Being out of it as long as you have, you should really brush up on XHTML and CSS. Some might suggest ASP .NET or PHP for this question but so much has changed in 7 years it's imperative you get down with XHTML and CSS first. A good book on CSS is 'Eric Meyer on CSS' and there are so much resources on the Internet about XHTML already a book really isn't required.





To find out why XHTML exists, visit W3's site: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/





As soon as you are ready, you have the major choices I mentioned above for serving side scripting: ASP .NET (with the actual scripting being done in C# or VB7) or PHP.Building web pages, need advice?
It depends. If you want to build static web pages you should learn XHTML and CSS.





Building dynamic web pages, i.e pages which load their contents from Databases, you'll need to learn a server side scripting language like PHP, or some other similar technology like ASP.NET





you can find lots of resources here


http://www.w3schools.com/
Well, you got alot of books with this thematic (for example ';Creating Web Pages For Dummies'; by the Bud Smith and Arthur Bebak) but the best solution is to buy firstly some program support (as Dreamweaver od Front Page Express) and read their tutorials. There you'll find basics and after you'll beginn with work, day by day you'll make it better. Veradisca %26amp; Best Regards, Neven.
Right now, semantic coding is what's most important as opposed to pretty design. By that I mean using each tag in accordance to its role (ie h1 for heading as opposed to a table cell; p for paragraphs not divs; tables only for tabular data).





Another thing that everyone is aiming for, is separating style from content. Put all the styling inside an external stylesheet and use classes and ids (where needed) to apply them to the html tags.





Also, you need to keep in mind that disabled people will need to be able to read your site: color contrast, order coding, links(anchors) to navigation/content...





As for the server side scripting: ASP.NET seems to be the latest trend, however PHP is also pretty popular. You can do more with ASP.NET though.