Probably further out of the loop than you, but for what its worth:
I've just done a couple of static HTML generator projects, using python, Markdown and Jinja2. I played with mod_python and apache for the server but haven't got any excuse to use dynamic page generation yet.
"web developer" is no longer the nice neat definition it once was. Today you can honestly say that about your static pages with no server or browser side code; as well as the massive "application suites" that touch dozens of "technology stacks" and can't be made to produce the same output for the same inputs, ever.
The tooling is available for the whole range, so you might do better to specify more what kind of web development you're aiming at.