Appealing ISN'T the problem.
Consider the reason you build and put up a website. "Exposure" You don't put it up on the web so NO ONE can find it or ever see it.
Crappy HTML, non-standards compliant HTML and CSS, images in place of text... All of those will do far more to keep search engines from ever seeing your site than the time you save "dragging" everything into a page from a photo editor will make up for.
Add to all of that, people using older browsers (IE7, Firefox 10) will see all sorts of "quirks" in your shoddy code because the browser can't interpret it and correct for it as well as the latest updated browsers.
So the choice is yours: take the easy way out and defeat the purpose of building the site in the first place... or take a little time and learn to do it right so the site will be succcessful.