Seems that most programmers are not good designers, and most designers are not good programmers.  However, Microsoft is making it easier for programmers to not worry so much about design by providing a set of new templates for VisualStudio.NET 2005.

The interesting part is that these templates are not only pretty nice looking, some of them conform to the XHTML 1.1 Strict standard; that’s something you couldn’t even dream of doing with VisualStudio.NET 2003!

In addition to being standards compliant, these templates make use of Master Pages, Themes, and Skins, so they should serve as good references on how to properly use these new features in VS.NET 2005.

MSDN: Design Templates