OK, here I go...splish...that was the sound of a can of worms opening up. Here's my two bits.
I come from the other side of the tracks, I started off as an artist and went into graphic design, then web design. I use Adobe GoLive to build my websites, but I design websites using paper, pencil and photoshop.
I dont think it makes much of a difference to the end user what or how you built your website. If it was poorly designed but coded by hand without any errors, it will still be a poorly designed website. What the customer wants is a nice looking, fast loading website that is relavent to what they are looking for without crashing their machine.
Here's a thought: When you want to manipulate a digital image, do you do it in binary? Or do you use an image manipulation program like photoshop? If you have an easier, convenient, and time saving way to do something, do you use and embrace that program? Or do you continue to do it as its always been done? I haven't heard of very many people today that hand retouches their images for the web.
If it takes you twice as long to code by hand, is it worth it? Does the client notice the difference? Some things I see the need to code by hand, but this isnt one of them. Wouldn't your time be better spent elsewhere?
By the way I can read and edit the html code, but I have so much other work to do I can't justify spending my time writing it all by hand.
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