Well, in French web agencies, there's a third person in the middle, called an "HTML integrator" who gets the photoshop sketches and makes them into HTML, CSS an

Well, in French web agencies, there's a third person in the middle, called an "HTML integrator" who gets the photoshop sketches and makes them into HTML, CSS and static images, who then hands this to the programmers who plugs the dynamic bits in there. I think this is responsible in a large part for the design tropes of the French web. Newer/hip startups don't do this, they use designers who write HTML/CSS, like the rest of the world.