Hear, hear, pwillard!
I've had a lot of fun over the years, making my own PCBs.
Now... they may not be brilliant, they may not often use SMT, they may not be "professional"... but they clear up my proto-boards for the NEXT project, and are reliable and robust. (How many times has my CCTV enabling circuit gone down because that wire has come out of the proto-board, AGAIN!?... note to self: Get the PCB for that finished, installed.)
Guidance for, to me, reasonable compromise between hopelessly amateur and hopelessly expensive tools and techniques...