The Kristen's Guide Forum

Do you use a program that generates web pages using templates?

Do you hire somebody to design the page for you?

Do you start with templates but customize them?

Do you make it yourself from scratch?

Or do you use a different method?

Maybe you can qualify that question, such as "how do you make your personal web pages?" (Or for your business, or at your job, or for a local chapter of an organization!)

Now I make my pages from scratch but after making them for ten years (seven years using ASP) I have a nice collection of flexible, reusable code that's all mine, but takes the tedium out of redoing those same things I've already done before. But since it's my profession, I might do things a little differently than others.

I'm stubborn though. Many people in my profession will use templates or packages or code libraries that someone else had made, and it's a smart move that can save you a ton of time. I'd rather know exactly how the code works at the lowest level, so while I sometimes look towards finished packages for inspiration (I love BaseCamp!) I prefer to roll my own, as it were.