WYSIWYG or Hand Code?
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"being able to handcode is not designing..."
"to get html to work properly in every browser and to lower the file size etc....could be considered an artform becuase it is an absolute pain in the ass.... But its not design"
okay, are you talking about graphic design or web design? if you're talking about web design then i think that's a crock of shit. in web design (simplified), you can do one of three things: you can plan (design) how a site is going to look; you can plan (design) how this site is going to be transferred to the user's screen; you can do both.
obviously, the third one is more 'design' than the other two taken seperately, but the second one taken on its own involves a design process (and is therefore 'design') just as the first is design. you can say 'well the end result on the user's screen is the same', but it doesn't work that way, a navigational experience is not a static thing that the user waits for and then it appears on their screen as a single instance.
you go ahead and think purely about aesthetics if you like, but if you want to get all 'MORE DESIGN THAN THOU' you have to recognise that there will be other people out there designing the aesthetics while also designing the method of transferring that from a server to a user, designing a method of allowing a the associated data to be efficiently updated, designing methods allowing the end user to interact with that data better, et cetera. and those people truly are more design than thou.