My knowledge of xHTML/CSS is pretty good, though I also know Javascript, jQuery, PHP and MySQL as well... I'm no that good on PHP though

Most of my HTML and CSS knowledge is pretty basic. The only reason I know CSS is because I used to go crazy with designing my old page on Neopets.

Which reminds me, my old accounts' still sitting there....

Anyway, I've dabbled along the lines of JavaScript, I couldn't get too much, though, so the only thing I really do that JS-related is variables and pop-up windows.

Hand coding means editing in source code. The reason to use hand coding includes the ability to Use features or refinements which is not supported by the graphical editor or compiler.