Yes, designers should have HTML experience. But the best designers think visually, and need to have the freedom to do that.
By all means hire a front-end code wrangler to save your elite programmers from tearing their hair out over IE6 compatibility, but I would never expect a top-notch graphic designer to know the first thing about good markup. There is no skillset overlap, you know? Writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript--that's coding, not design. _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php