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It depends what you need. I started with ASP but quickly took up PHP, I've been doing PHP for about 4 years now.
I love PHP, the speed is fantastic, the code is very structured and easy to write, it's very easy to debug, it's extremely cheap to role out. It works very well with mySQL.
However. If you're looking to work as a developer, you'd be hard pushed not to go down the .NET route, everywhere I look I see people advertising for .NET developers, .NET fits in great with Windows Servers, if you're running a Windows based server, active directory or the like, .NET will give you massive scope that you will not get with PHP.
Again, it's another example of the best technology losing out to the Microsoft Money Machine.
Access is a fine desktop database for organising your CD collection, but you need to get over it very quickly and start writing proper ANSI spec SQL. You don't need a visual editor to build tables, you just need to spend an hour or so getting to grips with the syntax, then you'll be able to migrate to Oracle, MSSQL or any other DB that comes up very easily.
Andrew
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