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Future of Web Design?

I'm 20 and currently run a web design business. I love doing the job because its my passion and my true talent. I mainly focus on the web/graphic template itself but I'm very knowledgable in HTML/CSS, PHP, MYSQL and Java. Do you believe web design will be around as a career for years to come?

Public Comments

1. For the most part. Flash is really becoming the most popular. It's harder to compete now with so many large companies taking over.
2. Absolutely ! Web design, I feel, is just really starting to become an essential part of any business. You are definitely on the right track ! Good luck.
3. You have to be flexible. Being knowledgable in those languages is great. You need to be willing to go in other directions, though. Most likely, you need to either combine those skills with graphic design and marketing, or else go the high tech route and continue to learn even more languages and stay current on them.
4. interface design and interaction design will be around for as long as we have any kind of "computer" and any kind of humans using them. you will have a career working with interfaces and interaction as long as you stay current in the methods and tools for creating those AND making them more useful for humans. but don't get bogged down on "web" design. the web is just one example of a network of computers. the web as we know it right now is already very different than what was originally conceived and it will change and morph and become other things. just stay on the leading edge of the wave as much as possible, don't get bogged down in what the average person thinks of the web. always keep in mind that the "computer" is the processor chip, some electronics, software (including the OS), and the memory hardware, not the box they're in. why remember this? because ANYTHING can have a computer in it or part of it and if you think that way you'll be on the leading edge of working with the new interfaces and interactions. if anything can have or be a computer, any of those "things" (cars, toys, houses, people) can be "networked" in any of hundreds or thousands of ways and networks also need interfaces and interaction design. stay flexible. read lots of articles on slashdot and boing, boing and other tech and nerd sites to broaden your mind. stay curious. keep loving your work.