An excerpt from an excellent post about what a real “web designer” should be defined as:

Now, of the above listed I would say that Dreamweaver is the lesser of the evils. The real problem comes when its a COMPLETE reliance on the WYSIWYG to build/maintain a website. Have you ever seen the crap spit out by Front Page? How about the crap spit out by GoLive? Try just validating the HTML on pages with this - its ugly. It moshes everything together, inline JS, inline CSS (poorly constructed - topic for another post), and anything else someone throws into it. Its just plain ugly. The process is usually:

1. Create a sketch in Photoshop or Fireworks
2. Use the export options to export the images (if they even slice them)
3. Import into program of choice (see above) and try and make it all fit together (This is where use of Frames or Image Maps come in).
4. They make sure it looks good in a few browsers
5. They hand it over to the client and take their ridiculous amount of money for doing nothing
6. The client suffers from a poorly built website
7. Client doesn’t know any better, so they still come back for more work - never bothering to ask about analytics or traffic. (In the cases they do ask for traffic, the ‘designer’ feeds them the hits from the webalizer and rationalizes the traffic)
8. Crappy websites exist all over the place

WHY? This is my main question. Why is that with web development, no one takes the time to LEARN or live up to standards? They have no understanding, they have no training, they have no experience - but yet they can continue to sell poorly built websites.

You can see the full post linked under my de.icio.us links down below.