Couldn't disagree more. One of the few blogs I subscribe to at the email level is just a great designer doing this over and over. As a developer with no design

Couldn't disagree more. One of the few blogs I subscribe to at the email level is just a great designer doing this over and over. As a developer with no design capability whatsoever, it has increased the quality of my output immensely. If I need to write an email app, or anything with that structure, boom, I can go check out a design authority on that. A lot of times the real clients are actually just stuck with a lot of cruft they've never devoted a full redesign to getting rid off, not handling details the designer didn't cover. Even if they are, as a developer, I'll do what I have to do to make the details work. It will look worse than the original vision, but overall the looks will still be far above me on my own dropping clip art in.