[Phillips126]

Good stuff here, I certainly learned a few new tricks.

I've been doing web development since around 2005 and to me, CSS and HTML has become far easier to use (although that could also be from experience). I took a web development course in college and found it interesting, later joining a small marketing company as an intern. My internship was unique, the company would travel to local businesses and sell them on advertising. They'd record a small ~2 minute commercial showcasing their business and then I'd build an application that compiled all of this data into a "local tourism" application. The real kicker - we didn't host the content, we burned it onto CDs and distributed the discs (think AOL). The company didn't profit well, but it was small and able to survive on what income it did make. I'm actually surprised to see it still around today - however, it seems they've moved on to actual hosted web development and graphic design work now. During this time we mostly used a combination of Tables and Photoshop "slices" to do layout (yuck!).

Today I use CSS/HTML/JavaScript daily building internal applications (and a few external). There is certainly more things to worry about such as building applications that are responsive now that mobile devices are so prevalent, however my arsenal has improved dramatically over the years with the addition of Flex and Grid (and many others). I actually enjoy the challenge of creating something beautiful and functional.