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uNL...are any of you experienced in web design? Im interested in creating an internet startup...but I have completely 0 knowledge of web design. I'm wondering about learning curve (how much time and effort it will take to be able to make a decent website), or my alternatives. Obviously i'm not baller enough to pay market prices.
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I dable in web design a bit - it takes a lot of patience but I would say that the concepts are easy to learn. I would suggest going down the PHP + MySQL route as it is the simplest and most readily available for little $$ as far as hosting etc goes. Also, best forums ever for web design:
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/ (its like the 2p2 of web design [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img])
If you make a decent effort and you know a bit about programming.... I would say that you could learn the basic concepts of HTML/PHP/MySQL in about a month, and then it would probably take you about another month to create your first live website....