I built my first website when I was 11 years old. That was a long time ago, relatively speaking. I've lived more than half of my life as a web designer. From day one, it has been an enthralling field to me. This is why:

There are few other technical fields that embrace aesthetic considerations as an equally significant element to the trade. Oh sure, I can name a few: animation, architecture, photography, industrial design (all of which have incidentally been at the top of my career path list at one point or another). Though I think of myself as an artist, I'm just not the kind of guy who could sit around and draw pictures all day and be satisfied. While I love creating art for art's sake, I need an evolving field with technical challenges that have an artistic result.

The internet is at the crux of evolution for many industries. It really has become the axle to the revolving commerce of the world. As a result, it's a powerful field that is shoving the capabilities of every industry forward. Things are in a constant and eternal state of change which makes it a lively and challenging discipline. There are new hurdles to climb, more problems to solve, and the results are inconceivably rewarding. Web Design really strikes a chord with my inborn craving for creation — creating something public, powerful and appealing from nothing. Not everyone can do that.

The most profound innovation of the internet is the shift in communicative power that emerged. In a few seconds, you can write a line of code in the text editor that shipped for free on the machine you bought off your roommate for 20 bucks, beam it up to the cloud and broadcast your message to two billion people — that's almost a third of the world's population! That puts a lot of influence into the hands of non-celebrity yokels like you and me.

I like being a part of the change.