Howdy "JD"...
I'm "new" in web development... I have only had exposure in website maintenance for about 9 months but as a technical writer, I've had exposure to basic HTML/CSS, HTML5/CSS3, some JavaScripting for about 7 years now so I'm fine with doing web pages the "hard coding" way... most web building it would seem is *generated* for you with all sorts of online/offline web apps.
I'm of the type that I want to build it myself, to actually code it. But in my past line of work, The coding was initially done for me and all I had to do was manipulate it in a way that made the pages read