Discuss: Findings from the Web Design Survey, 2008
by ALA Staff
- Editorial Comments
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An interesting survey that made for good reading
posted at 08:23 pm on April 7, 2009 by Betsy Bee
14 Survey Findings
Thanks for sharing these findings and congrats on an excellent job.
posted at 09:26 pm on April 7, 2009 by bryan dennehy
15 Interesting Results
I couldn’t help but notice that this is a high turnover career, with a lot of hopes and dreams for the future.
Joe
posted at 12:18 am on April 8, 2009 by Joe Almirantearena
16 Tremendous work!
This is without a doubt the best reference and crunched numbers that the industry we all work in has ever gotten.
The amount of data exceeds by far the expectations that I had in mind!
Thank you ALA and AEA for all this great work. Hopefully I will be present again at AEA in Boston, it is such a great event.
Max
posted at 12:27 am on April 8, 2009 by Maxime Perron Caissy
17 Australia
Its a shame we didnt get more people answering the survey from Australia, I would have liked more local information.
posted at 02:40 am on April 8, 2009 by Kevin Knight
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Thanks for posting the results!
Funny how everyone in the web standards community is always complaining about the level of front-end education, like table layouts still being taught, and then to see that educators have the smallest skill gap when it comes to coding markup.
Suggestions for next year: – Divide backend and front-end developers in job titles – Leave out ‘indigenous/native’ as an ethnic group, unless it is possible to choose more than one option. The world is full of people who are black, white, hispanic or asian and also indigenous/native. Putting ‘indigenous/native’ on the list is the same as adding one of the two genders in it: Are you black, white, hispanic, asian or male?
Detail: the writing that comes with figure 3.4 suggests that either all women in the industry are web designers or that the figure is only about this specific job title.
cheers.
posted at 06:33 am on April 8, 2009 by Sander Aarts
19 Finally!
Been waiting for these results for months – glad to see they were worth the wait. Very interesting reading – and nice presentation, too! Thank you.
posted at 08:03 am on April 8, 2009 by Matt Andrews
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I’m grateful for all the work; you guys actually aid this business look like we have our act together! This is by all means attractive data. Truly like the website format this year, too.
posted at 08:07 am on April 8, 2009 by Daren Hardy
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11 Much Thanks
Thank you for the information you provide. This is really helpful to see what you are doing.
posted at 07:43 pm on April 7, 2009 by Jay Baggs