Figured here was as good a place to ask as any. I'm just about to graduate from my college course in computer programming (it was *not* a degree; nothing heavily theoretical, just a 2 year course for a certificate) and was looking to create a website that showed off some of my skills, in the hope this would make me a more attractive hire. We focused fairly heavily on Java as an object oriented programming language, and got a little bit into Java EE. We also had a class on HTML/CSS/JavaScript, but it wasn't in depth and I don't have a strong understanding of the languages.
As for my idea, it was basically to make a website that replaced the current "Portables" friend's chat in RS3, allowing hosts to advertise their portables and users to find them easily. I could do user accounts, databases, all the typical stuff that comes with programming languages and so on.
We got far enough into Java EE that, with a little bit of brushing up, I feel fairly confident I could use it to create a web page that showed off the skills I currently have. That said, I also feel like it would be possible for me to, relatively easily, learn HTML/CSS/JavaScript with another language on the backend (I already know Python? And is that how it works? Not sure how the connection from HTML <> another language is done outside of Java EE, or whether JavaScript does that).
My question, then, is whether it would be beneficial for me - someone who has no real preference which way he goes in terms of languages and so on - to learn those new languages to do what I want to do, or brush up on Java EE and do it that way?
Thanks for your time, and sorry for the wall :P.