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Hi craigburdett. Really appreciate your reply here, I'll check out the lynda.com. I completely agree with what you say on all fronts. The websites that I have are not income generating as yet as one is an informative company website for my main company, another is an ecommerce website that is linked to the first company (although a is a seperate entity) but is on the back burner due to political industrial constraints that I am ironing out as we speak and the final website is still under construction but will not generate income for year or so. If at all! I am very lucky with my working life being that although I run my own companies, the main being in distribution, I tend to have a lot of spare time due to that it tends to run itself and is frankly not very taxing. I have always had a huge interest in websites and how they work and am finding learning about all the various different languages a huge amount of fun and somewhat fulfilling (probably due to my incredibly unsatisfying daily routine!). My problem is, I get toooo many ideas and like to follow them through where ever possible and I have always found that the problems of interpretation when expressing an idea or function to a third party can often be time consuming as it does not always work first time (naturally). I want an extensive understanding of various languages to enable me to not only communicate better if I need to outsource certain sections of certain projects but to also diminish the potential for having 'the wool pulled over my eyes' as it were. But most importantly to eliminate a large majority of the cost and time from idea conception to taking to market. I am an extremely focused and determined individual that even takes hobby's to the extreme so although I am not reliant on any of this knowledge to sustain an income I would certainly like the ability to make money out of it if I can. So basically it will be an intensive hobby that I am really eager to learn because I'm a bit of a geek!

Thanks for your comment, nice to know I've started in the right place. Once everything is stored, understood and memorised I intend to experiment like mad.

I am a complete novice when it comes to programming and am extremely keen to learn as I love problem solving and technical languages. I also have a few websites that I have spent money getting other people to build and think I can save a lot of money if I learn how to do this myself. Being a bit of a control freak I do not want to use programmes such as Dreamweaver etc as I want to know exactly what is going on and where. For the last 6 days I have been learning through the W3 Schools tutorials and have covered and fully understand why the construction of the various codes to 99% of the HTML, XHTML, HTML5 (not really a focus) CSS and JavaScript tutorials. My theory is to basically memorise all related attributes and essentially the entire site in order to teach myself how to build good interactive database driven websites and make sure I fully understand every single including all available functions for each. Before I move on to the remainder of the site I was thinking that this may not be the best way to go about learning the required skills and was hoping that someone may have a more recognised approach that I should probably be taking or are the W3 Schools tutorials sufficient? Please excuse any incorrect vernacular relating to the above, although I understand what is going on I have not started memorising all the correct terminology and tutorials yet.