[ace94x]

I agree with your mentors 100%
My mentors first wanted me to create a site using joomla or wordpress I told them no, probable a bad idea but the end result has been great, I am the only web developer on my team, I have created our website over the summer (still tweaking it) and I used 100% custom code, there are the few lines of code from google maps and from google analytics, but that is it, even the images were created by my using GIMP, my suggestion use Notepad++ it is perfect for creating websites from scratch, then use a free host like 000webhost for testing in a locked folder then once it is complete upload to your teams site, now because most sites vary like ours did you may have to change things, like I had to, but never just jump into it using a CMS or a WYSIWYG, I am working on a custom CMS now for my teams website (Menu based) hoping to work with all customs sites in the future. Once I finish it I will post it on chief delphi, I just started it so I am not far along though. the CMS will require you to already have a site created though, because custom sites are better than template sites.