For a web designer or developer getting credit for your work is hard. At a design studio or agency you might get a link at the bottom of a website you designed or develop linking to your web site. As a freelancer you probably won’t even get that. Even then a general link back to the organization won’t tell you the exact people involved in designing and building the website.
The television, movie and the music industries do a great job of giving credit to everyone who worked on the project. Plenty of time at the end of a movie or television show is dedicated to rolling credits for anyone involved in their production. Music CD inlays provide a similar roll call of people involved in the creation of what you’ve just listened too.
Sites like the Internet Movie Database have been furthering the access to such information, making those credits available online for everyone to browse or search. Until recently there was nothing comparable for people involved in web design and development.
The three sites below are aimed at getting you credit for your work.
IWorkedOn.com is a bold and ambitious effort aimed at compiling the most comprehensive database of projects and the people who contributed to them worldwide.
Launched just a few weeks ago, I Worked On, allows anyone to join and add all the projects they have worked on. You can list your roles on each project — be it a developer, designer, writer or anything else — as well as what skills you employed on that project.
Disclaimer: I had the idea for I Worked On 2 years ago, but never quite got it released to the public, but with the help of a couple of friends the site is now available for all.
Sick of getting no credit for the cool sites you make? whobuilt.it lets you claim the sites you build!
whobuilt.it requires that you upload a specially named file to the website you’re claiming you built for verification, which isn’t possible in all cases, but this extra step ensure that people really did build the sites they are claiming.
Adding your sites to WMTW is free. However, you are required to verify that you played a role in the sites creation by adding a verification code to the source code on the homepage of your sites.
Similar to whobuilt.it, you’re required to add a verification to the sites you worked on, and roles are limited to designer and/or developer.
Sign up for one of them, or sign up for all of them, but do sign up and get the credit for your hard work.
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Ironically for this article, the link to Climax Designs at the foot of Most Inspired is incorrect.
@paulhc: Ironic indeed! They took their site down, will find out what’s going on!
Thanks for the heads up.