It's very, very common for web designers to do their creative work in Photoshop or Illustrator. Then, they either code it themselves or hand the PDF/AI to a cod

It's very, very common for web designers to do their creative work in Photoshop or Illustrator. Then, they either code it themselves or hand the PDF/AI to a coder. So I don't believe the supposed blandness of the web results from a lack of visual design tools.