Hey there! It's always nice to learn about people that do their best to learn the web languages (as well as programming in general).
As someone who has been developing web sites for nearly eight years, I fully agree with what Initscri said: Don't try to do too much things all at once. There are many great and interesting technologies out there that scream to be learned, but it's better to learn a few things well than a lot of them poorly.
I also agree with Initscri that learning PHP is still your best bet: PHP is a very robust and time-tested language, there are a plethora of resources that can keep you learning and fix errors you stumble across, and there are tons of great places that offer cheap or free web hosting. Python or Ruby might be more flexible in some ways, but this also makes them much more confusing for beginners, at least if you try to learn it to design web pages.
As for the website you've shared: It looks very interesting. It is a great start. If you want, I can give you more detailed feedback, but these are the first two things that stood out to me:
- Try to ensure that the user can see which page he is on.
Right now this works fine for the 'Bitcoin' and 'Litecoin' pages, but not for Mining/Buying/Trading etc. It might be smarter, as you've separated the Bitcoin mining/buying/trading/ from the Litecoin mining/buying/trading/, to have two separate dropdown buttons, right next to each of the coins.
- When resizing the screen a bit, the text in the big buttons floats right next to the icons.
You're using FontAwesome, which is a great help. However, in this case, consider putting the icons in a div (or other block element), so you can position the text in the proper way (Right now the icon and the text are sitting on the same text baseline). Consider to either keep the text at the bottom at all times, or trying to vertically align it to the middle.
Oh, that became much more detailed than I wanted it to be. Ah well, I hope this might help you a little. If you've any more questions: Please do ask.
As for how to get work: Just look around you, there are always people looking for quick fixes or small implementations or designs of things, even at the level you work at right now. Just look for those opportunities on the internet and in real life, and be nice and confident towards them.
Have a nice day,
~W-M