Unfor­tu­nately, there is no gov­ern­ing body for licens­ing or cer­ti­fy­ing design­ers. There is no spe­cific set of courses one must com­plete or set of books one must read to make a busi­ness out of design. As a result, the first time some­one fig­ures out how easy it is to make a site with a WYSIWYG edi­tor (like Front­page or some other equally evil mon­stros­ity), they hang out the shin­gle as a “designer” and wait for the busi­ness to pour in.