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I've found that marketing and design, the main skills of the small web company, require a completely different type of brain than mathematical, the logic based brain of a programmer. That's why after fourteen years I still can't design or market worth a darn. Systems analysis comes naturally to me, but I'd need a completely different sort of brain to do what most GFYers do every day. I'm just not wired to be able to make an attractive page like most people here can. I'm wired to work worth arrays of hashes of references to anonymous lists.
A lot if webmasters learn some very basic scripting, but most don't really "get it" even when it comes to HTML, which is designed to be a semantic language with presentational concerns handled via CSS based on the box model. Most webmasters do presentation in HTML. Though they may learn about the box model, theoretical models don't REALLY make sense to them.
By the same token, I don't "get it" when webmasters try to explain to me how to set prices or any of the things they do. I can design database schemas with proper referential integrity all day long, but can't even choose a good banner, much less make one. They can do awesome banners, but wouldn't know a float from a *char if it bit them in the ass.
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