Glossary Term
A List Apart
History of A List Apart
- A List Apart began in 1997 as a mailing list for web designers.
- Moderated and published by Jeffrey Zeldman and Brian Platz.
- Within months, 16,000 designers, developers, and content specialists had joined the list.
- A List Apart transformed into a web magazine in 1998.
- The website has had three major visual designs.
A List Apart: The Web Design Survey
- From 2007 to 2011, A List Apart annually surveyed the web design and development community.
- The surveys provided insights into salary, job satisfaction, workplace discrimination, and more.
- Tens of thousands of respondents participated each year.
- The magazine provides anonymized raw data with each findings report.
- Readers can verify the findings or conduct their own investigations.
International editions of A List Apart
- A List Apart launched its first international edition in Arabic in 2010.
- An Italian version has also been launched.
- These international editions are authorized publications of A List Apart.
Related resources and references
- Web Standards Project
- CSS Zen Garden
- Gomez-Palacio, Bryony; Vit Armin (2009). Graphic Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications and History of Graphic Design.
- Gardner Susannah; Birley, Shane (2012). Blogging For Dummies.
- Zeldman, Jeffrey; Marcotte, Ethan (2010). Designing With Web Standards.
- Zeldman, Jeffrey (August 22, 2005). A List Apart 4.0.
- Shafer, Dan (2004). HTML Utopia: Designing without Tables Using CSS.
Notable features or characteristics
- A List Apart started as a mailing list and later became a web magazine.
- The Web Design Survey provided valuable insights into the web design and development community.
- A List Apart has launched international editions in Arabic and Italian.
- The magazine provides anonymized raw data and encourages readers to verify the findings.
- A List Apart has had three major visual designs for its website.