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adrianpelletier | 11 years ago | on: There Are No Experts in the Web Industry

That's an interesting point and I suppose if we broke it down and asked can you be an expert in just HTML or CSS, the answer would likely be yes. However, if that's all you knew, you'd have a hard time being hired. The message I was trying to convey is to have a web career, you need to be constantly learn new things all the time.

Thanks for adding to the discussion.

adrianpelletier | 11 years ago | on: There Are No Experts in the Web Industry

Excellent comment, I fully agree with what you're saying. My intent was never to suggest "throwing out" previous knowledge but to instead recognize there's always more to learn and to keep building on that. Once you stop learning, the web quickly surpasses you.

adrianpelletier | 11 years ago | on: There Are No Experts in the Web Industry

Thanks for the feedback. I do see your point as well; even though web languages and design techniques are constantly changing, our end goal is usually the same. However, I still run into too many web "experts" who think they've learned it all and, in my opinion, that's an outlook that will quickly make you obsolete on the web.

adrianpelletier | 11 years ago | on: There Are No Experts in the Web Industry

There's a lot of truth to that. Basically, if you don't enjoy learning all the time, web design/development is not for you.

adrianpelletier | 11 years ago | on: There Are No Experts in the Web Industry

Fair enough and thanks for the comment. The point I was trying to illustrate was the pace at which technologies evolve and few are quicker than the web industry. I wholeheartedly agree that the best blacksmiths were constantly improving but it was relatively slow compared to how quickly the web changes (i.e. they didn't have new tools/materials to learn every single day).