I cut my teeth on Geocities in 1996. Frustrated by the limitations of their in-browser editor, I decided to go hard-core and do all my HTML in Notepad :-) I graduated to HotDog Pro and Homesite in short order. Of course, I had the requisite star field background, animated gifs, and requisite <blink> tags.
However, is this a typical path? Today I'd guess many build "sites" using Tumblr, Blogger, or Wordpress before picking up development skills. Even those stumbling through Rails or the like can drop in Twitter Bootstrap with little fanfare and have a pretty decent looking first effort.
However, is this a typical path? Today I'd guess many build "sites" using Tumblr, Blogger, or Wordpress before picking up development skills. Even those stumbling through Rails or the like can drop in Twitter Bootstrap with little fanfare and have a pretty decent looking first effort.