Surprised that no one has yet mentioned the shift to web-based CMS. Every web designer I know is learning or already developing sites in Joomla! (The more technically ambitious are checking out Drupal.) This is a recent switch, within the past six months. My guess is that even for small business "brochureware" websites, this movement will rapidly render the old HTML/CSS skillset obsolete.
Surprised that no one has yet mentioned the shift to web-based CMS. Every web designer I know is learning or already developing sites in Joomla! (The more technically ambitious are checking out Drupal.) This is a recent switch, within the past six months. My guess is that even for small business "brochureware" websites, this movement will rapidly render the old HTML/CSS skillset obsolete.