> In the past I've mostly used Dreamweaver and Wordpress, and I know html and can hack
> some basic PHP stuff. Wordpress seems like it has gone out of style or no? I would
> like something like that where you can pick a theme and hack it up, is there a "new
> Wordpress" or what's the deal?
WordPress is still the king, people use it for lots of stuff that it wasn't designed for, without having to pay for a custom CMS or anything. The trending in WordPress as blogging/CMS platform is not as fast as it was a couple years ago, but its share hasn't decreased at all.
The other contenders at a big distance are drupal and joomla.
Personally I go the route you describe, pick a theme and hack it up. Making a theme from scratch is pretty time consuming. As tools I only use Firefox and Notepad++. The Firefox element inspector for following what and where CSS does stuff is all you need to start. Then of course there are lots of tools for polishing once you're done, you can manually test in Chrome and Safari but there are online tools for testing rendering in more browsers (which is still tricky no matter how simple you think your CSS is), or tools to generate multi-browser CSS (with the -webkit, -mozilla and similar prefixes) and all that.
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