Hey folks, so basically, I want to make a website, to start off my web development career path, that basically makes various shapes of various colors and sizes and whatnot appear and disappear on the page at random intervals. That's basically what I want to start with. Eventually I want to add user accounts to it (because why not?) as in, you can register an account/pw on this site (which is just one page at this point), as well as being able to make the shapes do random stuff like bounce up and down when you click them, attack other shapes, spit out random queries (for example, you click a button on the shape that says query, it asks you what your question is, you tell it, and it googles it for you), and once I get all that down just go from there I guess.
I know for a fact it's going to involve html, css, javascript, and SQL. But from the research I've done, it seems I have some options as far as server-side programming. The main 3 I'm looking at are PHP, ROR, and Django (but I am of course open to other options).
I really have no idea which one to lean towards, honestly. I've been told PHP is probably the easiest to get started on, but the most "annoying" out of the 3, with the most kinks. ROR is currently "hotter" but Django has a better support / documentation system.
What would you guys go with, and why?
EDIT: actually I'm leaning towards PHP honestly just because I'm a big fan of w3schools and they have php tutorials and no python/rails tutorials. But again, if I can find a pretty good tutorial for either one then it's a moot point.
This post was edited by Rejection on Oct 2 2014 06:10pm