Recently I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Future of Web Apps conference in London. With my main area of work being Web Design as opposed to Web Development I was quite concerned that a lot of the lectures would be a little too "techy" for me, but this was not the case at all. In fact the majority of the lectures were of a lot of interest to me and my areas of interest. the only overall complaint I would have is the fact that a lot of the lectures centred around startup apps, but being fair I suspect that the majority of the people there would of been for that specific reason. (more…)

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.

Working with statisticians, we spent the next months crunching raw data into meaningful findings. Here we present what we have learned about our powerful yet little-studied profession.

Read the survey results here

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Now this is kind of tongue in cheek, but there is a certain amount of truth within it. I can’t take full responsibility for this article as it actually appeared a couple of months ago on seomoz.org by a gentleman called Matthew Inman.

Some of you may of heard of the phrase “A Camel is a horse designed by a committee”, this pretty much expands on this theory. (more…)