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; and has maintained a blog, Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report, on the topic since 1995. His most recent book is titled Designing With Web Standards. Zeldman co-founded the Web Standards Project (WaSP), a group of professional website 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 who adopted standards-based, cross-browser solutions to web-design problems. In particular, he helped destroy the myth that accessible websites have to be ugly or apparently "undesigned". His books and websites have helped promote a general improvement in the technical, visual design, usability and accessibility of websites.

1 Prominence on the Web
2 Personal information
3 Books authored
4 External links

[edit] Prominence on the Web

In 1998, Zeldman began the e-zine A List Apart, which focuses on tricks and techniques related to web design and development.

[edit] Personal information

He is married to Carrie Bickner of Rogue Librarian fame, Director of Education Outreach for The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library, and author of Web Design on a Shoestring. The couple have a daughter, Ava. Zeldman is a recovering alcoholic, having been sober since 1993.[1]

[edit] Books authored

Taking Your Talent to the Web: Making the Transition from Graphic Design to Web Design. (ISBN 0-7357-1073-2)
Designing With Web Standards. (ISBN 0-7357-1201-8)