There are several roles in a Drupal development team. Nearest and dearest to most clients' hearts are the people who take design assets and development effort and marry them. These people are known as Themers. They can do some pretty miraculous things.
Now, there are bad Drupal themers out there. (GASP!) These are typically: (a) programmers who don't really care about clean CSS and therefore only modify existing themes or (b) designers that will write PHP under imaginary penalty of death. You think I'm kidding. These guys don't go camping together, but neither do they help *any* project achieve its long-term goals.
The perfectly-wonderful-in-every-way Morten Heide (@mortendk) gave a talk at Drupalcon Copenhagen entitled, "All Your HTML Are Belong To Us," and wrote a wonderful blog post redux of the talk and the ubiquitous Devel module called Devel: a themers hidden treasure. It's great. I, too, am shocked at how many "Drupal themers" don't use this module. It baffles me. And Philip, our Drupal Associate specializing in theming, would agree that it's impossible to theme the end product without knowing what's going on under the hood.
So unhip themers: download the devel and devel_themer modules. And start breaking stuff. It'll be way more satisfying than shuffling around CSS all day.
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