It’s an argument as old as time - or at least as old as the Internet: To code or not to code? A perennial form-versus-function debate, the question pits the visually-geared design set against the pro-HTML contingent in an argument over whether design is pointless without technological understanding. Flash standard-bearer Adobe Systems is trying to squash the beef. With new website authoring tool Muse, Adobe claims to combine the ability to create highly functioning, unique websites with a back end that won’t confound technical novices.

Though still in beta, Muse has already created a stir, some calling it a great compromise while others say it needs more work to be a viable sitebuilder. Though it won’t be released as a paid product until early 2012, it’s clear the product meant to curb the design/code debate has already added more fuel to the fire.

Designers and coders both play a key role in creating web spaces - designers adding elegance to everything from landing pages to user interfaces, while coders create the pages of brackets and letters that tell the computer how to produce visuals.

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