Above: It is a very handy skill to be able to look at a page of HTML and ‘decode’ it. ‘Hand coding’ is no longer an essential skill for the design using a WYSIWYG page design program, but when code is generated by applications such as Dreamweaver it can sometimes contain glitches such as unused tags which may disrupt the page To understand and be able to edit the tags will save time and trouble and enable professional results.