Originally Posted by ronbotx

Hmm.... Well I guess it depends what you are doing. In my "non-adult" day job, I pretty much do data driven, ASP.Net websites, using C#, and SQL for the DB queries. I don't really write standalone Windows programs. Please note that Visual Studio .Net and the associated MS backends can get very pricey real quick. They are a couple of decent free tools that Microsoft has. You could also do some basic Asp.net sites using Dreamweaver. It has build in support for this although few people use it.

If you want to write data driven websites for your own purposes, I would say PHP and MYSQL(both free) would do the job in most cases. You could use Dreamweaver for development.

Good luck.