Depends on what you're talking about. I can totally see a developer having the front-end design skills necessary to make a site functional yet decent looking,

Depends on what you're talking about. I can totally see a developer having the front-end design skills necessary to make a site functional yet decent looking, but I'd rather have a full time designer polishing the graphical elements or suggesting changes. The actual graphical design work that goes into most websites is not that high, and trying to do everything yourself is going to lead to stress and misery.