Here's is the view of someone who is still struggling.

If you choose not to go the .Net route, you might also want to try Lynda.com. I have found the courses there really very helpful. They are a bit less "academic" I have found than Pluralsight. But whatever you do, I would definitely follow a couple of those online courses on php (or) asp.net, html(5), css, javascript and jquery; probably in that order. You do not get the "helicopter view" you get from this from reading books or reading online documentation.

The editor (not so much the choice, but some of the functionality) has also some bearing on the length of the leaning curve. The difficulty is in the sheer quantity of things you have to master before you can even start designing you project.

Also, depending on your long term planning of course, I'd learn and strart developing the server side first. You could for example write part of your framework (things like emailing, configuration and database operations). It's tricky to learn more than one those technologies simultaneously because the syntax for the same things are different in the different technologies (php,html,javascript).

Also something that you may not find high in the priority of people who write about these things is AJAX. Make sure you understand this before you start to make plans.

My 2 Eurocents.



>>Thank you Craig. I have try to find the latest version of VS. I only have Vfp 7.0. Yeaph, I am THAT far behind.
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>Good advice from Craig. I strongly suggest Pluralsight. At least go to
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>http://pluralsight.com/training/Courses
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>and check out the course catalog. I can't think of a faster way to get up to speed.
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>If you are just starting web stuff I would recommend against investing any time or effort into incorporating VFP into the stack. You will always be swimming upstream, options are *extremely* limited and there is really no point. Learn a technology that was designed for the web and for the stuff that clients expect now.
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>Basic web apps are really pretty easy once you see it done from end to end. The Pluralsight courses are about $30 a month for the whole library as much as you want - about $50 with source code ( I very much recommend that ) and I think are the best value of anything I've seen in 30 years in this business. They have very very beginner stuff all the way through quite advanced and the range of subject matter increases very rapidly.