OT: Q re getting started in web publishing....

[Fyron]

Leave Flash alone. It is a festering eye sore on the face of the internet, mostly used for insidious advertisements. You would be better off not looking into it, in my opinion.

Perl is antiquated and very annoying to work with. Go with PHP. It is more powerful and easier to use, as well as based off of C++, so it is very easy to learn. PHP and MySQL go hand in hand very well.

In my opinion, Dreamweaver is a waste of money... it doesn't really provide much useful functionality. You can get a better IDE for many languages, such as PHP, if you get Eclipse and some plugins for it. All for free, rather than shelling over big bucks for 2nd rate software...