Just dive in, try! It’s like one page or two right? If you don’t have the technical skills yet you can go with the fundamentals and just use vanilla js, CSS and HTML. But if you go with a framework shouldn’t be too bad either. They make a lot of aspects of the development easier but I do believe that you need to have a proper grasp of the fundamentals

When I was studying I used php but not a lot so I don’t really have an opinion for it, why the “hate” for it? Coming from someone who uses React a lot