What is the top current web development language?

The last time I made a website was in html, so it's been a while, I have to make a small business website and was curious what is the top language out right now, most stable and secure most of all. If you can recommend a good book or website, would be great.

Thanks in advance.
Mark

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Edited: 7:09 p.m. EST

The biggies out there are ASP.NET, followed by JSP and PhP. ASP.NET is used everywhere - JSP tends to be used by people who like open source as is PhP. (If you go with PhP - the best way to go is to download a LAMP or XAMP (linux/windows-apache-mysql-php) package and then you can build it on your computer (go to www.apachefriends.org for further details). PhP seems to be used by a lot of nonprofits. Either way, you still need to know HTML - it is also helpful if you know a little javascript, or CSS. As far as websites - to get your feet wet I'd try w3schools.org. Some people are using Flex which is kind of like a successor to ColdFusion. But I haven't heard much about that for the last year or so.

But if you want to build a business website, I wouldn't do it from scratch - instead look into a content management system like Drupal or Joomla! You can hook up a databaes backend (like MySQL) - all for free. You just need to get a site to host it on. There are lots of CMS's out there - you can set up a website in about an hour or two that has lots of functionality. A lot of them have PhP code running under the hood.

ColdFusion is an excellent language that builds on the HTML concept, but controls content, such as info from a database, while the HTML controls layout.

Now that .NET is big, a lot of people are also using the Microsoft Visual Web Developer. You can get a free download of the Express version from Microsoft.

I'd say html still has it but you might wanna imbed some java c++ or PHP try going here thy have tutorials on most languages. www.w3schools.com/