What software would be the best investment of my time & money for web development?

I'm thinking about expanding my web skills and am wondering what would be the best investment of my time & money (for software & classes). I want to be able to make robust applications for social networking sites, accessing databases, interactive forms, secure pages / login, etc. I'm looking for some advice from professional web developers.

What is your opinion on ColdFusion, DreamWeaver, .NET, Visual Studio / Visual Basic, XML / HTML, Java, others?

u r looking for best investment for time and money towards web development , i say u prefer either Java/J2EE or .NET .
depending on u r interest and feel easy to capture the things what u take. for both u should know OOPS concept once u get those u can play like that. java is simple if u learn it carefully and give more options to decide ur own path what u want , comming to .NET its quite easy compare to java oppurtunities some what is less. once u learn java u can opt for ERP packages like SAP they r depending completely on java u can do what u want to able to . for ..NET u have to stick on that platform only(Windows). i prefer to go java . some what painfull but gives fruit full results all the best.. go ahead

aptana - and it is free

Get a tutor to train you in software development. There are websites offering courses but nothing can come close to Live Mentoring. With offshoring, the costs for live tutoring is probably cheaper than what they offer for classroom courses in the US.
you could do a search on yahoo for live tutoring or check out www.eBizUniverse.com and click on live mentoring link.

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