>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.
... 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.

The downside for me is that PHP freezes my fingers into a nearly automatic "go away, abomination" gesture ;-)
While I can handle JS much better than Hank and agree with him that Python code is easy to read at first encounter,
PHP is nothing for me to touch without mental hazard pay - and only for short stints ;-)