What Languages Do I Need to Learn?
If you are a visual designer who spends time in Photoshop and Illustrator, you
may be put off by needing to learn how to create your designs with text, but I
assure you, it’s pretty simple to get started. There are also authoring tools that
speed up the production process, as we’ll discuss later in this chapter.
The following is a list of technologies associated with web development.
Which languages and technologies you learn will depend on the role you
see yourself in within the web design process. However, I advise every-
one involved in building websites to know their way around HTML and
Cascading Style Sheets, and if you want to do frontend web development
for a living, JavaScript know-how is pretty much a job requirement. More
technically inclined web professionals may take on server configurations,
databases, and site performance, but these are generally not frontend devel-
oper tasks (although a basic familiarity with the backend issues never hurts).