Hi everyone!
I work in an ad agency that does close to zero interactive work, which has left me with little experience in web design. I have a lot of down time...not really surprising because again, we do NO web work (wtf?) so I've begun filling my time with tutorials on lynda.com. There are quite a few languages that I don't know - ajax, css, java, php, ruby, xhtml (yeah, basically all of them) - and it's hard to figure out where to start. So I guess my question is: to what extent do web designers, not programmers, need to know these languages (basic knowledge or pro level), and which language is best to start with?
Thanks for helping a desperate-to-grow newbie.