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10 April 2009

Form follows function

For those keen on web teams, check out the neatly-presented findings from the survey for people who make websites 2008.

As we did in 2007, A List Apart and you teamed up to shed light on precisely who creates websites. Where do we live? What kind of work do we do? What are our job titles? How well or how poorly are we paid? How satisfied are we, and where do we see ourselves going?

There’s some interesting data on job titles – and remuneration.

Designers, Web Designers, Web Producers, and Webmasters appear to earn significantly less than the sample as a whole. Art Directors, Creative Directors, Information Architects, Interface Designers, Marketers, Usability Experts, and Web Directors earn significantly more!

The bigger earners are specialised trades and management. (And marketers – less said the better.) In local government, I think you would find that people dealing directly with digital engagement fall in the first camp. Another argument for improving job titles, position descriptions and organisational structures to reflect that reality.

I’d like to see this survey widen its scope to ask respondents what they’re responsible for within their job. Managing communities, for example, might form part of any number of job titles. In fact 26% of respondents listed ‘other’ for job title.

(See Steph Gray’s Defining the roles within digital engagement for an attempt to better define and describe what we do beyond front- and back-end coding and design.)

There’s also data to argue for unfiltered access to the internet – and recognition of the network as a crucial part of professional development:

Self-study (read websites and books, trial and error) is how most people stay current (70% or better of the respondents). Formal training (conferences or in-house training), trails far behind (approximately one third of respondents). This result is consistent with the 2007 findings.

— b3rn   web teams   Apr 10, 01:21 PM   #

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