I graduated in college specializing Visual Basic 6. It took me three years to realized that this language is becoming obsolete. I experimented VB.net and C# but somehow I lost my drive. This is partly also due to the nature of my work in my previous job. It was really not so much in programming. When time came that I need to do something for my future career I doesn't have much choice. I was forced to learn how to weave the web.
I noticed that most of the jobs in IT involves web developing. If I need to expand my skills I have to know how it works. I really have slight knowledge about HTML at that time, but I did not develop it due to the thinking that scripting is not on the same level as programming. Today I realized that I was wrong. Web is the future of computing as what Google showed. So, to enhance my skill I self studied HTML, then CSS. I had a hard time at first but in the end I finally get the right technique. This is the most important part of my learning. After this everything now about web is within my reach. Though sometimes I still have to crawl to get what I want.
Today I can safely say that I have good knowledge in terms of web development. Photoshop, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, ASP.NET, C# and others, it came to me like avalanche. Although I admit in designing my creativity is not yet adequate and in the area of web apps like flash and java I still have a lot to learn. And I'm improving myself everyday.
