They surge across the ocean, moveable frozen islands, able to crush iron, sink ships. They have a power of their own. The most dramatic part of the iceberg is what you don't see. Most people don't think about the part that lurks below, but it is this depth and bulk underwater that gives the iceberg is staying power, its raw powers.
Web pages are sort of like that too.
I am a client-side person. I look to someone else for server-side programming. I like dynamic pages, but I couldn't create the code to serve one. We see the surface of a site and its design and presentation influence our first impressions of the content it offers up. These are critical, critical elements and the web wouldn't be a user friendly or even very useful place without them.