Ask HN: Whats the best and worst parts of being a web developer/designer

[georgephillips]

I'm part of a start up to make web designers/developers life easier and would love a look into the best and worst parts of the job. I'm mostly intrigued about the design and development of smaller scale websites or prototyping website but if there is anything that grinds your gears about your day to day workings I'd love to hear it.

Thanks in advance for any help at all.

[joenied]

The difference between static site and full fledged CMS. What if I just want to design something and do some simple DB calls? Don't want something big like wordpress and don't want to dive into some framework and setting up a DB just to access a DB on one or two elements of the page. I want something in the middle that a designer can just hit a couple endpoints and not have to worry about the backend stuff.