A List Apart

Not to be confused with A Band Apart.

A List Apart

URL	alistapart.com
Slogan	For people who make websites
Type of site	Webzine
Registration	None
Available language(s)	English
Created by	Jeffrey Zeldman
Launched	1998

A List Apart Magazine (ISSN: 1534-0295) explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.

“A List Apart” began in 1997 as a mailing list for web designers published and curated by Jeffrey Zeldman and Brian Platz.

Founder's notes:

In 1997, web developer Brian M. Platz and I started the A List Apart mailing list because we found the web design mailing lists that were already out there to be too contentious, too careerist, or too scattershot. There was too much noise, too little signal. We figured, if we created something we liked better, maybe other people would like it too. Within months, 16,000 designers, developers, and content specialists had joined our list.

Editing was the key. Many members submitted comments and topics each day; we dumped the dross, published the gold, often selecting pieces for their thematic relevance to one another. Through editorial cultivation, we rapidly grew an intelligent and insightful community. —A List Apart 4.0 – The evolution of a design: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/ala40

Zeldman transitioned A List Apart’s community and content from mailing list to web magazine in 1998.

David Siegel’s now-defunct High Five advocated graphic design; Wired’s Webmonkey taught JavaScript and other technologies. Both magazines were great, both subject areas vital. But to me they were parts of a larger whole, incorporating writing, structure, community, and other bits nobody had quite put together. Then, too, no web design zine of the time seemed to grasp or value web standards the way I and my peeps at The Web Standards Project did. —A List Apart 4.0 – The evolution of a design: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/ala40

A List Apart: The Web Design Survey

Every year since 2007, A List Apart has surveyed the web design and development community and presented its findings in a series of reports. These reports claim to be the “first true picture” of the profession of web design as it is practiced worldwide. Topics covered include salary; title; educational background and its effect on salary, job satisfaction, and title; workplace discrimination by gender, age, and ethnicity; and more. Tens of thousands of respondents around the globe participate each year. The magazine provides anonymized raw data with each findings report so that readers may crunch their own numbers, verify ALA’s findings, or conduct their own investigations.

• Findings from the 2007 survey: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/2007surveyresults
• Findings from the 2007 survey PDF: http://www.alistapart.com/d/2007surveyresults/2007surveyresults.pdf
• Findings from the 2008 survey: http://aneventapart.com/alasurvey2008/
• Findings from the 2009 survey: http://aneventapart.com/alasurvey2009/
• Findings from the 2010 survey: http://aneventapart.com/alasurvey2010/

International editions

An official Arabic edition of A List Apart was launched on 18 January 2010. Arabic A List Apart is an authorized A List Apart publication and is the first international edition of A List Apart.

External links

• A List Apart (ISSN 1534-0295)