Lorel - 1:39 am on Jun 8, 2010 (gmt 0)

I started out by learning HTML by hand and still do it because of the code bloat and lousy css implementation of WYSIWYGs. Also about 90% of the sites I've redesigned were originally built with WYSIWYGs run by operators not knowing how to change the defaults or implement better CSS control which caused ranking problems due to duplicate titles, descriptions, etc.

Now that Google has implemented download speed as an important ranking factor (all other factors being equal)designing sites with clean code is more important than ever.