Hey Chris, love your work and glad you're doing an AMA!
My question is do you think that web design is dying? Similarly to how you started css-tricks as a get rich quick scheme, I thought learning web design would allow me to make some easy money. 4 years after taking my first class in high school, and here I am still doing doing it, and not just for money, but because I enjoy it.
However, it seems as though all these free, simple site builders and template based systems like wordpress are killing off the web design industry, at least smaller businesses. I feel like only the medium-large web design companies will continue to prosper, because smaller business sites will be made by things like squarespace.
It's kinda scary because I don't know what this means for my future, and if I should even continue learning web design. What are your thoughts on this and what I should do?
Hey Chris, love your work and glad you're doing an AMA!
My question is do you think that web design is dying? Similarly to how you started css-tricks as a get rich quick scheme, I thought learning web design would allow me to make some easy money. 4 years after taking my first class in high school, and here I am still doing doing it, and not just for money, but because I enjoy it.
However, it seems as though all these free, simple site builders and template based systems like wordpress are killing off the web design industry, at least smaller businesses. I feel like only the medium-large web design companies will continue to prosper, because smaller business sites will be made by things like squarespace.
It's kinda scary because I don't know what this means for my future, and if I should even continue learning web design. What are your thoughts on this and what I should do?