The Survey for People Who Make Websites
Every year A List Apart Magazine hold their annual survey for people who make websites.
The questions you answer go a long way toward painting an accurate picture of the web industry today including the state of the current market and your hopes for the future.
Me? I told of how I still work a full time 40+ hour week for my main client and then have to share the remainder of my time amongst my other clients, still working a 60-80 hour week.
I told of how the industry is still good despite a pinch in the advertising dollars.
I expressed my desire to continue working my butt off, as everybody does in this industry, and to keep pushing the boundaries, although mainly on a personal level; the web continues to expand as does the skill set for working with it and everybody must continue to [over]fill their minds with ever-expanding levels and complexity of knowledge.
I spoke of my optimism for the industry and how much I believe in the web and how much I love it.
And, if you’re someone who makes websites, then you should contribute too 
Go ahead, take the A List Apart 2009 survey.
ALA Survey
A List Apart are running their 2008 survey for people who make websites. I took it and so should you
The results of last year’s survey (1.7Mb PDF) makes good reading. From my own perspective it’s interesting to see that the majority of the 2007 survey’s respondents were:
- mainly developers (I class myself as a web designer)
- younger than me
- educated to a higher degree
- working for MUCH bigger companies
- only recently into blogging
- mostly getting excited by the web design field
- working less hours
- fairly “green” in the web industry
- not having as much holiday
- earning less but getting pay rises