1 Hooray!

Sweet, the results are here!

posted at 11:46 pm on October 16, 2007 by Gabe Morton-Cook

2 Not the first

All the fanfare about this being the ‘first ever’ survey of web professionals comes off as somewhat disingenuous (e.g. The SitePoint Web Design Survey ). Big ups for making the complete results freely available, however!

posted at 11:52 pm on October 16, 2007 by Kevin Yank

4 Digg it?

I was so excited to see the results posted, so I submitted it to Digg if anybody cares to digg it for some added exposure.

posted at 12:33 am on October 17, 2007 by Joe Lencioni

5 Rock.

What a great snapshot of data here! Thank you for making even the raw data available.

posted at 12:41 am on October 17, 2007 by Bobby Kircher

6 So Cool

Great Study! congrats! great diagramming as well, what software do you used?

posted at 01:02 am on October 17, 2007 by Ganso De Soya

7 Job descriptions

Thanks for putting together this great survey – definitely interesting to read! Two small suggestions for next year:

• Divide “Developers” and “Web Developers” in the same way that you divided “Designers” and “Web Designers” – otherwise us front end folks get lumped in with the more hardcore programmers. Maybe have additional “Programmer” and “Systems Administrator” categories as well? I don’t know many people who still use “Webmaster” as their title, so I wonder if some front end developers chose that in your survey as the best option available?
• Have “some college” as an option under the education section – quite a few people out there who have most of the credits towards their bachelor’s degree but haven’t finished up yet, and their only choice is “finished high school” (as they did not attend/graduate from a junior college).

posted at 01:03 am on October 17, 2007 by Kim Flournoy

8 Raw Data

Thanks for providing the raw data, this way we can look at in detail the regional information.

posted at 01:05 am on October 17, 2007 by Gary Barber

9 Job Skills v.s. Salary

Nice survey, but I was disappointed not to see a breakdown of salary ranges compared to the skills that web professionals posses e.g. do professionals with back-end skills earn more than those who do not, etc. etc.

Thanks for all the hard work, though, and I’m really glad to see so many people take this survey.

posted at 02:06 am on October 17, 2007 by Blake Haswell

10 fascinating

Fascinating, and a bit overwhelming. I am no statistician, but after reading the survey results I feel rectified in my position that the lack of diversity in conference line-ups merely represents the field in general. Since that is what got this whole thing going (see http://www.kottke.org/07/02/gender-diversity-at-web-conferences) I hope facts will ease perception of gender and racial injustice among conference presenters. As with most inequality, education is key. There are initiatives to bring design education to grades K-12 in wide-ranging communities (see http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/education, for example). Though we may not see a tidal shift in our generation, conference speakers will likely be a more varied lot in the future. Good work, A List Apart. this was a huge and valuable endeavor and I look forward to future surveys.

posted at 02:24 am on October 17, 2007 by Lydia Mann