"Too many web designers spend too much time on 'UI considerations, information architecture, maintainability of code, and much more' and very little time on making sure the damm thing works and that the content on the pages is actually acessible." Hmmm...if a designer is spending time on UI considerations, information architechture, maintainability of code, etc...then their sites *should* work, and the content *should* be actually accessible. That's the whole point of taking the time to think about things like navigational structure, global navigation, breadcrumbs, etc. I guess I'm a bit confused as to how *not* taking these things into consideration would result in easier to use pages? Granted, there are thousands of self-professed web designers out there (and some working for large companies) that don't know the first thing about what they're doing. They may not be using Frontpage, but it's the "we have a tool to do that" mentality that leads to this mess of bloated web sites. As for the increasing number of "bloated, slow, horrible sites", I'd be willing to bet those in that category are *not* using CSS and XHTML to their advantage. Have a look at the source. You're sure to find deeply nested tables used for layout, a page littered with deprecated font tags, spacer gifs galore, and other telltale signs of bloat.