Industry News
The 2009 Survey
In the graphic design field, many people depend on the yearly AIGA | Aquent Survey of Design Salaries to see where they stand among other graphic arts professionals. The A List Apart’s Survey for people who make websites provides a similar service for the web industry. Sure, AIGA includes some web jobs, but the ALA [...]
State of the Web 2008
From December 1st through December 20th, the organizers of the Web Directions Conferences polled over 1200 professional web designers and developers about their trade. From the survey results page: The goal of this “state of the web” survey is to try and get behind the statistics, and get a sense of the philosophies and techniques [...]
Blue Beanie Day II
Kyle reminded me the other day that I should promote Blue Beanie Day here. The concept is simple, but a little obscure, so I’ll summarize: One of the most profound and ground breaking books about web standards was Jeffrey Zeldman’s Designing with Web Standards. The book advocated the use of accessible, semantic web content at [...]
David Airey on The Contract
Contracts are one of the most important things in any designer or developer’s repitoire, yet it is one of the least talked about items. Thankfully, David Airey has taken some time and gathered a few resources about contracts that we can all delight in. You should also subscribe to his blog as he comes out [...]
Industry Survey
The annual A List Apart Survey is out again. They ask questions related to working conditions, compensation, benefits and competency in order to show trends in the web industry. The survey is slanted slightly towards designers but there is still a benefit for those of us in development. Head over to their website to help [...]
