I've been dabbling with website development since 1998. It started out of necessity as a consultant and program manager for an IBM/Lotus business partner. Part of my job required not only Lotus Notes development (using Lotus Script), but adding content to the company website. I'll be blunt, even though it was rewarding to solve a script/HTML issue to get the desired results, I hated coding. I found it tedious, and frustrating. There were other folks who loved it, and were loads better.
Since then I have been keeping aware of tools and services that make it easy to build and host websites. Not because canned sites are necessarily better, but because they are good starting points for getting online & building your business. If they are free or cheap, even better.
