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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 08:22:57PM -0500, Thomas Beckett wrote:
> Steven Champeon wrote:
> > We saw a lot of folks who claimed to be "Web designers" basically have
> > their job go away or their business dry up in the 2000-2001 timeframe,
> > based on discussions on my Web design mailing list. IMHO, overall it's
> > been good for the industry to have those who aren't serious about
> > development or markup go back to whatever it was they were doing before.
> 
> That Steve Champeon doesn't know shit.  He's just bitter because Front 
> Page plus Exchange Server are making Web design and e-commerce 
> development as easy as point-and-click.  His "profession" is drying up 
> and soon he won't have any business.  Then Mr. Champeon will have to go 
> back to house-framing or whatever it was he was doing before.  Oh, and 
> he's ugly, too.

This from a guy who used to be a /lawyer/, who now has an /MBA/. Heh.
I can't imagine the ties that guy has in /his/ closet.

FWIW, despite the gloom and doom aspects of the quoted bit above,
membership in webdesign-l has gone up by three or four hundred in the
past year, and Eric Meyer's css-discuss list started from nothing less
than a year ago and now has several thousand members.

So it's clear that many folks /are/ still doing Web-related stuff and
are serious about doing it right. Whether they can make a living as a
freelancer, or not, I don't know, but I do know that a lot of folks lost
their jobs, their businesses, and so on, and went back to print design
or carpentry or whatever.

On the other hand, hesketh.com has kept all its employees, and people
still seem to like us to make Web sites that don't use *ack* Front
Page or *cough* IIS or *gag* Exchange.

Oh, and I'm /bitter/ because I still have a half-embalmed reptilian
freak from Kansas and Washington, DC, representing me in the Senate,
not because I face an uncertain life as a carpenter. :) I actually
/liked/ framing and finish work. At least your house doesn't go away
when the electricity goes off. (A nod to Joe here - we've been doing
a lot of painting lately, and it does feel good to be doing something
real to something real.)

Blame my parents for the ugly, though.

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