Hello Nlanders,
I have been thinking and wondering, What are the criterias to determine whether someone is good as a webdesigner, is it by knowing all the tools available in a designing software? or knowing what tool to use and when.
Because I have met different webmasters ( or self aclaimed webmasters) who can use Dreamweaver very well,but cannot design a visually appealling website.Yet they claim to be a webmaster. what do you think is wrong?

From a developer (css, html, javascript, php, jsp (and whatever backend languages are out there)) standpoint, I equate proficiency with the ability to:

1) code semantically
2) code efficiently (easy to read, easy to maintain, easy to reuse)

I personally could care less if you code with dreamweaver or notepad. What I want to see is your code as it says a lot about your thought process.