What would you learn to become a "full stack web developer"?

My web design skills are left in the 90s -- I can make a nice little web page for a research group or set up a small wordpress, but I haven't done much Design With a Capital D in many years.

So as a personal project I will be redoing my personal site.

If you were looking to redo your personal website, what tech would you use?

I guess there's two asks:

1.) What do you use to design small static sites if not coding by hand?

2.) What tech stack do you think currently captures the needs of the market in terms of "full stack developer".

I've found designing a web page gets... distracting. It's kind of like building a house from the ground up (or so I heard, for some reason adults loved to come up to me at parties as a child and complain about things like the number of doorbells in their life. People coming up... what type of switchplate cover? What type of switch? What color is it? What about the body?... and that's if there's no user input.

So while I respect that a lot of folks are big on AI here, I'm really more interested in books, courses, or just names of tech stacks that I can self learn from. I used to have a bit of a phobia of math, which translated into a phobia of programming, but to paint a picture I was able to get fluent with Python using Al Sweigart's books[0] after a couple false starts trying to start using the K&H C book... people were adamant online (AKA Slashdot) at the time that interpreted languages were inefficient and "real programmers" will be forever handicapped if we don't learn it and learn it first...

Anyways, if anyone has strong opinions on how to build a website, in terms of tech or design, I'd love suggestions on how to bridge the "gulf of execution" on this project.

[0] This one doubles as both an intro to Python and cryptography and has helped friends on the more pure math/physics side learn jump to programming [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_execution