[talmand]

Well, as a designer who does his best to understand his medium and make web pages load as cleanly as possible I can only agree with some of this.

As for my role as a designer, most of the decisions that are made as to what composes the website is not made by me. They are made by people above me in our company's chain-of-command. Most of these people have no idea what's involved in making a website but if I wish to continue receiving a paycheck I do what they say. I do try to educate them in some ways so that they can understand what's what but it doesn't always work out that way. Most of the things on the websites I work on that I do not necessarily like I can do nothing about, they are mostly marketing decisions.

Some of this hate towards designers can be spread around a bit more I think.