[Specialagentjim]

Professional or Personal stand alone websites: Normally PHP, as its free, open source, yada yada yada.

However, ASP.NET does have its advantages. Such as its tight integration with Active Directory and some of its new uses which haven't been published too much.

I'm not saying one's better than another, I'm just saying they have their own uses.

Personally, I develop for asp.net, but thats mainly because my office uses it so thats what I taught myself. (Gov't tends to like going m$, they just find it easier than trying to figure out a whole new OS [linux]. However, we are going to move to php and MySQL within the next few years for our new projects, mostly as a proof-of-concept for the state of florida gov't system. We'll proboly implement it first, and from there [as long as we do it well] it should spread throughout the state fairly easily).