Michael
I Love YTtalk
I code everything by hand mainly because I taught myself and never got out of the habit. I really like using PHP to create dynamic personalised pages e.g. a different page for someone who is logged in versus one who isn't. I really enjoy learning new things and that's why I started this thread and why i'm making the gaming network site, forces makes me improve by making sites I wouldn't make for myself
It is definitely a good way to go about it, the only stuff I dont touch unless I have to is PHP, JavaScript, Jquery etc, I can code and design sites well just not the underlying PHP, I leave that to CMS's for now at least.