Jeffrey Zeldman
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Jeffrey Zeldman is a prominent lecturer and author on web design. He also runs his own web design studio, Happy Cog (http://www.happycog.com/); and has maintained a prominent blog (http://www.zeldman.com/) on the topic since 1995. His most recent book is titled Designing With Web Standards. (ISBN 0735712018). Zeldman co-founded the Web Standards Project (http://www.webstandards.org/) (WaSP), a group of professional web site designers dedicated to disseminating and encouraging the use of the standards promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Zeldman is generally held to be one of a vanguard of proficient visual designers (others include Dave Shea and Douglas Bowman) who adopted standards-based, cross-browser solutions to web-design problems. In particular, he helped destroy the myth that accessible web sites (i.e. those that disabled people are able to use) have to be ugly or apparently "undesigned". His books and web sites have helped promote a general improvement in the technical, visual design, usability and accessibility of web sites.
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Prominence on the Web
In 1998, Zeldman began the highly influential e-zine A List Apart, beginning with the article "Fear of Style Sheets". This site contains articles that are praised by Web designers around the globe, namely "Suckerfish Dropdowns", "Sliding Doors of CSS" and "Alternative Style: Working with Alternate Style Sheets".
In 2001, A List Apart's editors grew tired of the lack of standards followed by popular Web browsers. It converted to the standard entitled Cascading Style Sheets, developed by Håkon Wium Lie, and challenged its readers to do the likewise. Hundreds did.
Zeldman maintains his existence on the Web by Happy Cog, his design group, Zeldman.com, his personal site, and A List Apart.
Personal information
He is married to Carrie Bickner of Rogue Librarian fame, Assistant Director for Technology in The Digital Library, The New York Public Library, and author of Web Design on a Shoestring (ISBN 0735713286). The couple have a daughter, Ava.
Books authored
- Taking Your Talent to the Web: Making the Transition from Graphic Design to Web Design. (ISBN 0735710732)
- Designing With Web Standards. (ISBN 0735712018)
External links
- Jeffrey Zeldman Presents (http://www.zeldman.com/) (Zeldman.com)
- A List Apart (http://www.alistapart.com/)
- Happy Cog (http://www.happycog.com/)
- Jeffrey Zeldman - Book: Designing with Web Standards (http://www.zeldman.com/dwws/)
- 99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete (http://www.digital-web.com/articles/999_of_websites_are_obsolete/) (first chapter of Designing with Web Standards)
- Slashdot's 2000 Interview with Jeffrey Zeldman (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/05/18/1433233&mode=thread)