Ok, got into an argument with a friend of mine I’m hoping the SD can resolve.
Can those of you who are involved in web design please let me know whether or not 1) Are VB scripts used in web design?
2) If so, how common or not common is it?
3) Would the regular, run of the mill, web design freelancer have a problem with it if it WAS included in a page?
Not particularly a deep question I know, but the answers to this would surely provide me peace of mind if nothing else. 
AFAIK client-side VBScript (that is, the VB equivalent to javascript) reached its peak years ago. The big problem with client-side VB is that it only runs on internet explorer (and IIRC only runs well on Windows) while well-coded javascript runs practically anywhere. Server-side VBScript is still pretty popular, though.
If the code in the page is reasonably well-structured, a good HTML developer should have no real problems working with it (as long as you don’t expect them to change the code itself). Using a WYSIWYG editor (like frontpage etc.) will probably not work.
Web pages can be delivered in any way. I know a guy who generates his pages dynamically using shell scripts he wrote from scratch. Any programming language can be used to develop a website… C++, Perl, in theory, even Basic and Cobol.
Most websites these days are developped in PHP, ASP, or some variant of .NET. Depending on how the scripts are set up, it could be very easy for a web designer with some HTML experience to modify them, or it could be completely and totally impossible.
Probably not the answer you were looking for, but there ya go.
I have no experience with client-side VB script (and I’ve been coding for the Web for about 6 years, so it’s gotta be long-gone) but I use server-side VB for ASP every day.
In my experience, if you keep all your code behind the scenes and leave a nice tidy set of variables for the designer to use (<%=ProductName%> <%=ProductSKU%> etc) then your basic Web designer don’t seem to have too much problem with it once they get the hang of it.
Looping through data, even if you give them a nicely-defined array to use, seems to be a scary proposition.
It’s taken a while for me to train one of our designers (a Dreamweaver kind of guy) to feel comfortable using variables. But once he got the concept he did ok. I think he just needed to play around with the variables to see what they did.
Conversely, we actually get a good bit of work each year from “run of the mill” web designers who take on re-design projects with existing ASP/VB code on the site that they are absolutely afraid to touch, and I get paid $60/hr to move variables from the top of the page to the bottom or make them appear bold.
Some folks just can’t grasp the idea of a dynamic web site.
Or J2EE and JSPs.
Thanks! This is exactly the sort of annectdote I was trying to convey!