WYSIWYG or Hand Code?
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because, this industry lacks any sort of standards. unlike graphic design, industrial design, architecture, etc...the web is the only immature industry where any uneducated, untrained kid can get a program and call themselves a designer.
in order to advance the web in any meaningful direction, designers need to learn the right way to do things...not the, "oh, i did it like this for years, and i'll keep doing it..." way.
html is a joke. the body that CREATED it even says so. and you have an army of people who have been doing it poorly for nearly a decade and are either too stupid to learn the right way or too proud to accept they're wrong.
some people actually take this industry seriously and try to make it a better place.
in the end, there is nothing wrong with using dreamweaver if you actually know what you're doing. but the fact is, most don't.
and, just saying the end product is ok because the client doesn't know the difference and it 'works' - at least in ie on windows and mac is good enough.
it's not good enough, and if you don't have the understand to accept that, then move onto something else as a profession.
i don't know how to fix a car, but i hope the mechanic who i am paying doesn't say - oh well, he doesn't know and it's 'good enough' because i don't want to do it right....
it's no wonder the majority of sites are nothing more than fluffy crap.