The Ups & Downs of Being a Self-Taught Web Designer

Not so long ago, web design was a brand-new industry. As such, there weren’t many opportunities to get a formal education on its fundamentals. Thus, the most direct path to becoming a professional was to teach yourself the necessary skills.
That’s how my career started. I studied the source code of different websites and figured out how things worked. I experimented with Photoshop, CSS, and eventually PHP and JavaScript. Most of what I know has come from the process of trial and erro