re: Seriously interested in learning Web Design

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From a professional standpoint, would learning both make me more marketable?

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Knowing more is always more marketable.

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From a professional standpoint, would learning both make me more marketable? I would assume the answer is yes

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Yes, mainly because it's as simple as InVolNerable said: knowing more is always better.

The more involved answer is, as you get into it and learn more about how everything works, it gets really hard to draw lines where design ends and development begins. Websites are interactive, so their design is heavily influenced by their function. There are people that make good money by sticking strictly to design and graphics, but if your end product is basically just an image, you need someone else to convert that into a working web page. If part of the design is interactive and has to move, change, or function in a particular way, then you pretty much have to learn HTML, CSS and javascript. This is probably the most common point to draw the line between designer and developer, though the line is kind of blurry because javascript is getting into developer territory. On the developer side of the line you have the database layer, and many, many choices of languages and frameworks to work with that database, manipulate the data, and shoot it over to the front works.

At the very least, in order to put a site online, someone with each of these skills will likely need to be involved, and it helps to know a little bit about what your coworkers are doing if you want to work well together.