Is front-end web development dying?

[KevinM1]

From there, I salvaged what I could of the smaller pages.  I rewrote the more complicated ones from scratch.  If I was doing it again today, I simply would've nuked the first version and rebuild the entire thing, but I was young and dumb.

To be fair, .css is a lot easier to work with now.  Unless for some reason your client needs you to support legacy IE versions (fuck you, IE6!), then things stand a pretty fair chance of working on most major browsers.

I wonder if the designers are still that bad.  I'm guessing they are still unworkable-- but I imagine a programmer who really wanted to make auto-generated sites nice and clean set down to it, it could be done.

I'm pretty sure I could do it, for example.

They're better now than they used to be.  I remember the last few versions of Dreamweaver (remember that? ) generated mostly well-formed code.

I think, though, for what they're used for (simple brochure-like sites, or small things like blogs), the code they generate isn't very important.  I wouldn't consider a site made with Wix's editor to be anything mission critical.  For anything 'real', with real, proprietary business logic in the back end, you're going to have actual designers and developers working on it, writing code themselves (with appropriate library/framework support, of course).