For a Starter in Web Design Whats the Best Code to look into?

[brian101]

i was wandering whats the best code to look into for a noob to web design. I know a little in html, but i was wandering is there a certain new language that might be really popular in the future maybe the newest language for web design? thanks....and also please include if you could a website to help you learn it

[Wickham]

I suppose the obvious candidate is Flash.

Some people say that it shouldn't be used to contruct a whole page, just for interesting parts of a page, but it seems to be getting more and more popular.