[GaryVoshol]

I don't think using a tool to create a product should be looked down upon automatically. It depends on what you do with the tool.

We don't expect our teams to build their robots using only their wits and hand tools. But neither would we be pleased if they used some marvelous tool that only required feeding in the design created by some outside vendor and voila, there's a robot! The same thing applies to website design. If you only use the tools and templates given, plopping in your text and logo where appropriate, you haven't done much in the way of creating a product. If you use a design tool to help you make a creative website, you have accomplished the task at hand.

We don't have to reinvent the wheel every year. (We have AndyMark to do that for us.)