Web-hacker survey at A List Apart

A List Apart, an online magazine about web design (in both the graphical and application-interface sense), has posted a new survey for web professionals, in an effort to construct a snapshot of the state of this young but enormous industry. Anyone who falls under the statement "I make websites" is invited to participate, anywhere in the world.

They did this last year, too, and this is an improved version of the survey based on what they learned as a result. I hadn't heard of that first attempt, but apparently its results impressed plenty of folks, as I've run into several pointers towards this followup effort. (And now you have another one.) I am definitely looking forward to seeing the results.

A bit of behind-the-scenes for you: when I first went independent last year, I gave myself the title "web architect", but wise friends advised me to drop that for being a phrase rather meaningless to anyone outside the profession - and, indeed, when I used it at local business conferences, I found myself having to explaining what it meant to nearly everyone I handed my card to. So I took on "software consultant" as a mantle, and have been trying hard to live up to that since. You can imagine, then, my surprise at discovering that "consultant" wasn't an option, but "architect" was, in this survey's multiple-choice list of job titles! "Other" it is, for me.