Learning 2 Hack - For the very first time. With a deadline.
Mz: My websites started with someone else asking permission to post something I had written on her site.  She made a little subsite on her site for my stuff.  I sent more content to add to it occasionally.  When she could no longer keep up, she gifted me the templates.  My then-husband was pursing a degree in computer science and took a few minutes to explain a few things to me (like what an FTP program was) and I started with a Yahoo account which apparently wasn't very hacker friendly.  I later moved my sites to something with more flexibility when I knew more.  Initially, I could only copy and paste colors to change backgrounds and copy and paste text to make a new page.  The first time I tried to change anything structurally, I messed it all up.  The woman who wrote the original templates kind of mentored me for a time and I eventually used some CD's, online sites, and a book or two to learn more coding, supplemented with talking with friends online who knew more than I did. I still tend to look things up "as needed".  I do okay these days with my websites.  They are in (X)HTML and CSS.My current goal is to learn a programming language so I can write a game.  I have yet to seriously pursue that.  I don't have a deadline though.  Que sera, sera.I hope my story is helpful to you and good luck with this.