A List Apart: Articles: Findings From the Web Design Survey

In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted a survey of people who make websites. Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey’s 37 questions, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide. Here we present what they found.

I participated in this survey - it is of course my line of work. I found the results mildly interesting, if anything to know where I fall in relation to my professional peers. I fell into the percentage majority for most of the questions, but there were a few where I was outside the medium.

I still think it’s wild that this is my actual line of professional work - not because it’s trivial, but really because it was something that didn’t really exist as a full time vocation when I was graduating from high school. I hope this is still the case if and when my kids are graduating from high school. So anyway, the findings be there my fellow developers; and for those curious to peak into my professional world for that matter.

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