I have worked as a Web Professional for most of my professional career. Although I remember being able to surf the entire web in one sitting, the past couple of years have been the most exciting: Responsive Design and HTML 5 have emphasized the web's roots in semantic code and accessibility while the many frameworks and libraries have opened up new creative possibilities.
My background is in the Liberal Arts (M.A. in Creative Writing) where I learned skills that have proven very handy working on the web: critical reading and interpretation (turning requirements into products), understanding narrative structures (storymapping and user behavior), and the group workshop critique (managin...