[thelist] Are Web designers a dying breed?

[martin burns]

Peter wrote:
> 
> There is a very big demand at the moment for just about anyone who can
> string a bit of HTML together, but, I can't see this phase lasting.
> 
> Just a personal opinion though.

Oh no. People who *really* know HTML/XML and how to make it standards compliant, accessible, usable etc will be in demand for a long, long time. But that's their core competence, and they'll need to be *really* good at it, hand-coders all. People who can make tiny edits to the output of DreamWeaver are not core-competence HTML coders.

Cheers
Martin