Web designers who prefer hard coding to WYSIWYG apps tend to come in two varieties: those who really know their stuff (and hard code because the WYSIWYG app slows them down or limits them) and those who know practically nothing about design or coding but who just think it’s cool to do things the hard way. It’s possible to migrate from the latter to the former, but it takes a long time to do it. As for me, I prefer to hard code most things because when I started learning coding all the available WYSIWYG apps sucked (we’re talking early versions of Netscape composer and FrontPage).