If you want to be that technical, writing this comment is "coding". I'm encoding into English sentences, and you, the reader, decodes into thoughts. Designing i

If you want to be that technical, writing this comment is "coding". I'm encoding into English sentences, and you, the reader, decodes into thoughts. Designing in photoshop is also coding. The designer encodes the "look" of a web site into an image, the image is then decoded by the user in that the design "makes sense". I'd say a more logical cut off point is between presentation and business logic. Presentation includes html, css, photoshop. Business logic is server-side scripting and databasing.