BeeDeeDubbleU - 3:18 pm on Sep 8, 2011 (gmt 0)

Web design isn't about who can look the prettiest, it's about getting the right elements together visually - it's technique not style.

I agree but there are many sites available offering off the shelf design components to assist people who are not skilled enough in design. It can be done when the graphic requirements are not critical.

You need to know more than how to work Dreamweaver to produce html to do good work ( make well designed visually pleasing functional as opposed to "pretty" websites ) ..and sites that get rank well and get found in SERPS for the terms that they are supposed to..

Actually I have been doing more or less that for ten years and I have many long standing and happy clients.