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The web is getting more and more complicated, but where does that leave people trying to learn the trade?

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1. A Walk by Mystery Mammal
2. Lonely Satellite by Mystery Mammal
3. Conviction by Little Glass Men

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1. I don't like making this podcast a look back on the golden days
2. But today warrants a revisit
3. When I first started making websites
4. An embarrassingly long time ago now
5. Some 16 years ago
6. There were really only 2 things you needed to make one
7. HTML
8. And CSS
9. Some people were still using tables for layout, but that's a different story for a different day
10. And now, in 2017, you need way more than that
11. Git, terminal, grunt, gulp, npm, package managers, jquery, JavaScript, Vue.js, deployment commands
12. It isn't simple to make a website anymore
13. This episode is all about my belief that the web is getting too complicated
14. This is AADA, and I'm Craig Burgess
15. MUSIC
16. Yes, before you say it, you COULD still make a website out of just HTML and CSS these days
17. When I make a website for myself, I usually like sticking to just these two simple things
18. But if you rocked up to a web agency up and down the land tomorrow looking for a job
19. And they asked you what you knew
20. And you replied with HTML, CSS, and I know FTP to upload it
21. They wouldn't be very impressed, and you'd be unlikely to get a job
22. Let's get this straight,  for most agencies, they now expect more
23. From graduates, they expect a lot of complicated technical knowledge
24. Things like Git, task runners, setting up Terminal and using the Terminal are just the tip of the iceberg
25. And I'd argue that this knowledge is expected
26. And honestly, we've done this to ourselves
27. The web industries desire to continue to push the boundaries, and to continue to get better
28. To use faster and more efficient technologies
29. To use better methodologies
30. Has brought about a massive technological barrier to the web design game
31. The rise of the role of a "front end developer" has lead to the development of lots of obscure and difficult to learn technologies
32. I know all this, because I've tried to teach this stuff
33. I've kept it simple too
34. Things like basic Git commands, basic Grunt stuff, basic terminal commands
35. And all of this goes of the head of nearly everybody I've tried teaching this to
36. We're in this industry every day, and I don't think we've realised how complicated we've made things
37. I genuinely don't think we've realised it
38. Even responsive web design is difficult to teach people, and a difficult concept for a young designer and a young web developer to understand
39. Over the past