The couple of hours I spent working up on the UNSW campus last Friday were a blast, but mind you I seem to enjoy every visit I make there.

It’s always great to tap into the vibe that emanates on the campus. There’s a certain rush, or buzz, and a slight anticipation even that something exciting is going to happen.

It’s a feeling that seems to evaporate once you’ve graduated and been in the workplace for a couple of years though. Maybe campus-like workplaces are the way to go.

Or maybe career changes are in order every couple of years, if it is for the want of frequently treading undiscovered ground that you yearn. Or maybe I’m just tripping again, which is quite possible.

Anyway I digress. Question 39 in A List Apart’s second Survey For People Who Make Websites asks “Do you find web design to be an exciting profession?” This is how I probably would have answered the question also:

Web design exciting? I remember design being very exciting from 1994 to 1999 when it seemed that new tricks and methods were being discovered every other day. Back then to be a web designer meant that you were constantly on the edge, pushing the frontier of a new world. I mean until you know what it was like to read Powazek’s column that documented how to use this newfangled HTML tag called “tables” or browse through Studio Archetype’s 1998 Nagano Olympic Winter Games…and these are just two events in a medium whose then-short history already seemed to be brimming with game-changing events.