What should I use to design web pages ? HTML or JSP ,I don't know much about jsp. Is it compulsory to learn jsp?

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[Pete]

no it's not. use HTML for static pages, if you want to create dynamic websites I'd recommend learning PHP

[Kaydell]

HTML is required for every single web page.
CSS is highly recommended for styling and for layout of web pages.
There are many different versions of HTML; I suggest that you start with HTML5.

JSP has Java mixed with HTML. The Java runs on the web-server and the HTML is delivered to the client to be displayed in a web browser, such as FireFox, Google Chrome, etc.

To design your web pages, you can either type in the HTML codes yourself, or you could design your web pages with a WYSIWYG (what-you-see-if-what-you-get) editor. The advantage of hand-coding your pages is that then you can do anything that is possible. The advantage of using a WYSIWYG editor is that the learning curve is shorter and for simple sites, it takes less time.