I think everyone should learn some basic HTML. You still need a professional for design and templates though. If you already have an example page of what you ar

I think everyone should learn some basic HTML. You still need a professional for design and templates though. If you already have an example page of what you are going to publish, its not hard to figure out the semantic elements. I think CSS helps as you only have to figure out what elements h1 p img, etc to use and the CSS will take care of the layout. My experience with visual editors CMS/ builders is that they are more complex and harder to learn then semantic HTML. As a web programmer that can also make some design, I hand code CSS gradients etc and use SVG for when CSS becomes too hacky, Im a bit slower then the Photoshop wizards, but then its already converted to web format, and as everything is hand coded its small too. Its always frustrating when another designer edits my SVGs in Photoshop blowing them up 100x in unreadable blob riddled. Just as when back in the days some other designer would edit the page in Dreamweawer.