Professional CSS :About the Authors

About the Authors

Christopher Schmitt is the principal of Heatvision.com, Inc., a new media publishing and design firm

based in Tallahassee, Florida. An award-winning Web designer who has been working with the Web

since 1993, he interned for both David Siegel and Lynda Weinman in the mid-1990s while an undergrad-

uate at Florida State University pursuing a Fine Arts degree with emphasis on graphic design. He is the

author of The CSS Cookbook (O’Reilly, 2004) and Designing CSS Web Pages (New Riders Press, 2002). He is

also the co-author (with Micah Laaker) of Photoshop CS in 10 Simple Steps or Less (Wiley, 2004) and con-

tributed four chapters to XML, HTML, & XHTML Magic by Molly Holzschlag (New Riders Press, 2001).

Christopher has also written for New Architect magazine, A List Apart, Digital Web, and Web Reference. In

2000, he led a team to victory in the “Cool Site in a Day” competition, wherein he and five other talented

developers built a fully functional, well-designed Web site for a non-profit organization in eight hours.

Speaking at conferences such as The Other Dreamweaver Conference and SXSW, he has given talks

demonstrating the use and benefits of practical CSS-enabled designs. Also helping to spread the word

about Web design, he is the list mom for Babble (www.babblelist.com), a mailing list community

devoted to advanced Web design and development topics. On his personal Web site, www.

christopherschmitt.com, he shows his true colors and most recent activities. He is 6'7" tall and

does not play professional basketball, but he wouldn’t mind a good game of chess.

 

For Dee. My muse and inspiration for many years and, with hope, many more to come. I would be lost

without your wisdom, laughter, empathy, and captivating smiles.

 

Mark Trammell of Gainesville, Florida, directs the Web presence at the University of Florida.

 

To Kaye. Your love and abiding support make me who I am. Your joy paints my life with vibrant

swaths of color that give memories meaning and our future hope. You are called many things: doctor,

lieutenant, professor, wife, but most important, I call you friend.

 

Ethan Marcotte of Boston co-founded Vertua Studios (vertua.com), a Web design shop focused on

creating beautiful, user-focused sites. A steering committee member of the Web Standards Project, he is a

leading industry voice on standards-based Web design. Ethan is also the curator of sidesh0w.com, a

popular Web log that is equal parts design, coding, and blather.

 

Dunstan Orchard of Dorset, UK, and San Francisco is Senior UI Engineer at Apple’s online store. He is a

member of The Web Standards Project, a silent developer for the popular open source blogging platform

Wordpress, and an occasional contributor to his own site at http://1976design.com/.

 

I dedicate my meager portion of this book to my parents and to my girlfriend, Nicole.

 

Todd Dominey of Atlanta founded Dominey Design (domineydesign.com), an interactive Web devel-

opment and design studio that has produced original work for Budweiser, The Washington Post,

Google, Winterfresh Gum, and others. He is also a Senior Interactive Designer at Turner Sports

Interactive, designing and developing Web destinations for major PGA tournaments (including the

PGA Championship and The Ryder Cup).