Does anyone like designing and coding web pages?

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I have been learning about CSS and ASP. As far as I can tell its all HTML with new names.

Does anyone write their own web pages like this? Or do you use web builder software?

I have coded my personal web site since 1997. There have been several major rewrites since then, as well as many more pages and sections added. When I started, I used FrontPage software, but I quickly started using Notepad to edit the HTML code. Now I use Notepad++ as my text editor because it has several features that make editing HTML easier. I received much help over the years from web design websites and forums, especially the comp.infosystems.www.authoring newsgroups for HTML and CSS. All of my web site's code is valid strict HTML and CSS.

Yes!
You could say it is one of my primary "obsessive passions." Working to start my own freelance website building business, which should more or less be stable within the next month or two (assuming my other interests do not consume too much time). It will do both web development and design - which are kind of confused often, since I am more of on the developer side (which does more coding) than design (how it looks, color, etc). CSS and HTML are normally learned by both, I feel though a designer might go more for web software like Dreamweaver assuming they chose to deal with the code at all. But there is much more to learn. For example, it you really want to go into development/programming, languages to learn are: Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Peril, Ruby/Ruby on Rails, perhaps Python/Java or some of the other more main stream programming languages out there. It mostly depends on preference and what you wish to do with it. Personal websites though, you probably are just good with HTML and CSS.
I would recommend using some software geared toward web coding though. Notepad++ is good, though I use Aptana which is more specifically designed for website building stuff (in that it catches errors kind of like Microsoft spell check). Dreamweaver (Adobe) does the same, though a lot more visual (played around with it when I was a kid a lot). Other than that, you can use straight up Notepad. Just be sure to name the files correctly. I have only ever used Notepad++ for a mini-Python-project though, so I do not know so much about it.

I should shut up now...

Oh god yes!
Infact I am doing it right now... I have more fun then I should with it to be honest, but who the hell cares?
My favourite project at the moment is my own forums coded from the ground up. Its cool to trouble shoot the logic in your code and test it on different OSes and browsers.
I love web development!

I used to, now about all I do is tweak settings on software I use.

It was fun when I did it. Now I have more fun being a user.

Yeah, I like to code by hand too. I don't like all the superfluous junk that high level development tools throw into the code. I like to build websites with dynamic content out of PHP/MySQL, including an admin control panel so I can easily add content to the website. HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL, I've learnt in my free time, but only as much as I need to know for the task at hand. I have background in a science degree majoring in computer science, and a job as a database developer many years ago. It's been a hobby since I had my kid and I've been a stay home mum.

I was going to do a collaborative project over the Internet with someone overseas, but unfortunately it painfully fell through:

He Never Gave Me Any Choice As To What Project
Written on June 17th, 2012

"22 May - I have wanted to do a project with you for the longest time and this is the chance to see what its like working with you. How good you actually are and all that good stuff."

first of all, he dictated that it would be a web project. now, i have ZERO professional experience or education in web development, it was a hobby that i took up when my son was not even two, and i only ever learnt as much i needed to learn, to build what i needed to build. my professional experience is with database development, even though i never had any education in that either, i was plonked in there when i had a job 15 years ago and had to teach myself on the job. my computer education was actually a major in "computer science" and i was attracted to all the theoretical and mathematical units. unfortunately, none of that was used in the job i had.

secondly, he dictated that the web site would be a tutorial about a specific type of programming/environment that i know nothing about. how am i supposed to offer any input into that, especially from the other side of the world? but i thought maybe if that was just one part of the whole website, then... which leads to point number three.

thirdly, he dictated that it would be about no other type of programming/environment other than the specific one he said. therefore, my idea to build a php/mysql based website (which i'm familiar with from my HOBBY i developed when i had a toddler home 24/7) was unnecessary.

fourthly, he also showed no regard as to whether i was ready to embark on a project, or whether (as i had been indicating to him if he cared to listen) i had too much else going on at the moment (sick kid with broken arm, among other things) not to mention that i already had two open projects to deal with! firstly, i'm about a third of the way through my assembly textbook (missed that at uni 18 years ago)

and also, my conversion to linux has been stalled - waiting the whole of school term 1 to get my broken laptop back only to find out it's not fixable, and now waiting out school term 2 so i can take my tablet into sydney in the school holidays to get the volume switch fixed that i need for a forced reboot. if the computer is going to be out of action for days (or possibly weeks if something goes wrong) then i need the tablet to be reliable, since it is not just me but my young boy who uses the computer and internet.

so yeah, he must an absolute delight to work with, so long as you're a compliant little robot.