Building websites with hand-coded XHTML and CSS, improves the semantics, accessibility, and search engine friendliness of your site. This is a Good Thing.
"Graphic design is complex combinations of words and pictures, numbers and charts, photographs and illustrations that, in order to succeed, demands the clear thinking of a particularly thoughtful individual who can orchestrate these elements so they all add up to something distinctive, or useful, or playful, or surprising, or subversive or somehow memorable."