How to move forward

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't laugh when you read this.

After some number of fits and false starts over the past few years, I 
think I am finally at a point (meaning I have offloaded some non-IT 
tasks) to truly expand my knowledge in IT by building an internal web 
site and/or 'htmling' some internal paper reports or something along 
those lines.

I need to learn some or all of the following (I think):  HTML, XML, 
decide what to run as a webserver on an iSeries, learn how to run it and 
administer it, how to generate html from some programming language, 
decide how and where to store it in the IFS, etc etc etc.

In short, I need to learn everything.  What do I start with?  Where is 
there a roadmap?  Do I need to take a college course?  Do I need to 'go 
away' to a class for a week or 2 to get started?  Do I need a bunch of 
books?  I have asked a similar question here before and was told since I 
am a single person shop, to forget Java and forget Websphere.  There is 
so much out there that I have read that it is very confusing.  To give 
you an example of how confusing some of it is too me, listen to this 
question:  Since I can put .html file(s) in the IFS and open them by 
clicking on them, what does a webserver such as the http server do for me?

Thanks.

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Jeff Crosby
Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily
the opinion of my company.  Unless I say so.