I used to work for a company that put out thousands of site a year. I was fortunate enough to work with some really anal retentive designers. After a few months

I used to work for a company that put out thousands of site a year. I was fortunate enough to work with some really anal retentive designers. After a few months, I was able to pick up a 1 or 2 pixel difference in the photoshop docs, see how fonts did or didn't work and if color schemes were decent. There's a ton of tools out there to help you with these, and as a developer, I like tossing around a lot of the design stuff that gets regulated until an app or site is totally functional, when I feel like most of the design work stuff should be done prior to getting your app working. Design is the hard part, coding it? For me, that's the easy part. I feel like once I've got some decent font's paired, a color scheme worked out and other design elements nailed, the rest is easy.