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Mary+8  wrote Now you are beginning to understand where I am at the moment. I think I am running out of steam and in a bad phase! I started out as a designer for print but had to learn web site design for my small client base. As I work on my own it there is nobody to share problems with so have to work it out for myself. Hence my use of this forum now that I am beginning to get out of my depth. Just when I thought I was getting somewhere I find that my choice of application was unsuitable and my knowledge inadequate!!!

I know where you're coming from. I too started out as a designer for print many years ago in the late 70's early 80's. Somewhere along the way things took a bit of a nose dive as they usually do and I felt the natural progress was moving into website building. It was still quite young 15 years or so ago when I first took the plunge, Nutscape Navigator 4, Internet Explorer 5 for Mac, GoLIve, table based layout etc those were the days when real skills were needed to make anything work. At a very early stage I realised that I was not going to be satisfied unless I had a real insight into how all this actually worked so I started on a long arduous journey delving deep into the coding that drove a lot of websites, taught myself everything by spending hours unpicking websites I liked, following the people who had the experience in the forum which preceeded this one, testing all their responses and answers religiously etc. I would have been finished 10 years ago (unemployable)  if I had not forced myself down that route.

So as you can see I have a great passion for getting to the bottom of how things work rather than just sitting back and hoping a bit of software will do it all for me, its given me an extra 10 years and hopfully will see me through, if I keep investing time learning, until the end of my career in  a few years time.

You should never give up until the time is right and you will always know when that time is.

Just to add I was back designing some print stuff just the other day....pure bliss. Indesign/Xpress is childs play compared to webdesign. I largely got out of graphic design as I felt it had become an unskilled job. A blindfolded donkey could learn Indesign and Xpress in a couple of hours, I wanted more, some are happy not to be challenged and will never get any further, time will come when they are redundant, excess to requirement, unless they wake up and smell the coffee.

That is also why I have an intense hatred for frameworks because they lure you into a false sense of security. You dont need to do anything, far from the truth. All frameworks are rubbish, only lazy web developers use them or are forced to use them by others, bosses for financial gain. They really bring nothing to the table in terms of skill or for the good of the developer themselves. They have releatively short shelf lives as new techniques are unveiled constantly. Frameworks can never keep up, they will always be 18 months to 2 years behind by which time everything has moved on again. Any serious web developer would stand on their own 2 feet and watch the trends. Flexbox is becoming big and so will Css Grid in a couple of years time, so invest your time wisely and  look at Flexbox now and start to explore Grid. Thats my advice for anyone who takes web development seriously and see it as a long term career.