>>I started doing web development last year. Someone directed me at some free HTML editors and after gnashing my teeth for a few days I happily purchased Dreamweaver, which was worth every buck.

I began using Dreamweaver in the late 1990s, great tool. These days I quite like Joomla. I'm not alone: already a significant proportion of web apps are constructed using Joomla and it is growing fast. Joomla encapsulates quite a lot of web functionality to the point that you can construct very impressive web content without needing to know very much about JQuery or HTML5 or even databases. E.g. for a web store see http://demo.rockettheme.com/?template=halcyon : the content is loaded using an included GUI editor into a database and Joomla automatically creates all those visual elements you can see- in this case using HTML5, Jquery and CSS. Price? $69 for 12 of these themes (you can see more using the combo at the top of the form). Try hitting it from your android phone: optionally Joomla notices and re-constructs the page to match your smaller screen, without any extra effort by the developer. Seems to me that programmers might be smart to switch to tools like Joomla that will carry nice consulting fees for another few years- since you can deliver so much "wow" with a fraction of the work they're expecting, of course you can charge top dollar. For now. BTW, Joomla's server piece runs on practically any server, so you can also offer to host sites for your customers at Hostgator or whatever where a reseller subscription allows multiple sites for maybe $200/year total.