I come from a programming background (Pascal and Assembler anyone?) and I started making websites because HTML seemed trivial by comparison - instant reward for very little effort. I soon however discovered that there's much more depth to it, and that I had a passion for designing beautiful sites and slick interfaces. 16 years later I still use Notepad(++) and Photoshop as my main tools of the trade, yet the web is unrecognizable - I love it!