| Don't do much news sites, most are pushing the shiny new tech of the month - which changes just about as often. Advice - don't try to learn it all at once, lots of technologies (CSS is truly brain damaging to logical back-end folk, take it easy)... also best to keep your HTML as simple as possible and style and script out from there. for a book, I suggest Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide by Charles Wyke-Smith Very good terse visual intro to CSS, will give you a good insight on what CSS is capable of, which is quite a lot. Look for the basics on responsive layouts, those grids and templates are usually set up for non-developers and add a lot of cruft you can do without. - this looks good - https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/design-and-ui... Javascript - if you don't want a lot of effects, you can do most effects with only a little javascript without resorting to JQuery (google to help you there) same with DOM work and AJAX - Google what you need and if you get some stackoverflow suggestions read though all the examples, sometimes the less popular ones are more sane. Especially if you are looking to do public facing front-end work, read up whatever security tips for your backend (filtering/escaping input, preventing cross-site scripting, and database exploits, etc.). Keep plugging along, you'll get there - Good luck |