For the past two weeks I am trying to learn Python and a framework for web development, while doing so I learned a lot but not what I was looking for.

I did manage to get everything set up and running, followed tutorials, but I still have not managed to create a navigation bar and a simple template website. My goal is to create web applications (like a blog) and perhaps platforms similar to stackoverflow. In which language was stackoverflow created in?

I believe that Python Django or Python Tornado (which I tried) is more for people who have learned desktop application development. It is hard for me to make sense out of the complex and fragmented system.

I'm able to develop with PHP and have already created blogs and similar applications.

If Python and a framework is not for me, what type of language would be for me, which languages are used for these type of platforms, I would like to develop myself?

I only omitted PHP because I found it later on a bit too inheriting, and the code is hardly readable and becomes quickly cluttered, I love how readable Python code is.