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Dear LJ,

The website that my workplace uses has a big crazy backend that serves as our organizational database.

Throughout my tenure here, I've served as tech support/web maintenance, and have been learning more about how it works through osmosis, but I mostly only make cosmetic changes and add the odd static page here and there. I would like to learn more about the nitty gritty of the coding so that I could have more autonomy to make changes and fixes in the database parts. Unfortunately for my macintosh sensibilities, it uses Access and .asp, and while I like problem solving and taught myself enough html and css to made a website, I don't really have any programming or web development experience.

What are good resources for me to learn this stuff, and/or would this be over my head?

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The w3schools site is probably the best resource of what actual functions are doing and what their proper syntax is. While it doesn't get verbose on every entry, it's a great reference point and helps you find what to look for in other resources.

http://www.w3schools.com/asp/default.asp