It's funny how website development started out fairly simple and has know turned into something akin to panhyperdimmensional quantum newtonian physics.
With .net, php, mysql, asp, perl, and all the other API's and plugins, and net development apps like dreamweaver and other tools you need to master like photoshop and the like it's hard to know where to even start.
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Isaac Newton, 1675