Hi Joshua,
well the easiest way would be to use the webbrowser as framework.
If this sounds like chinese to you, you are exactly at the same
point were i was a few months ago.

Either path you choose for the future, you will have to learn c++
to develop for the maemo plattform.

But hope is there! Nokia has just released the WebRuntime for
Aptana (IDE) - this makes developing for other NOKIA devices
a charm! Within minutes you have your flash directly on the
mobile phone installed as Application. That's something i would
love to see within Maemo.
I use the WRT from Nokia for my www.mojocafe.net project and
it realy rocks.