The Missing Credits
About the Author
David Sawyer McFarland is president of Sawyer McFarland Media, Inc., a Web development and training company in Portland, Oregon. He’s been building Web sites since 1995, when he designed his first website: an online magazine for communication professionals. He’s served as the webmaster at the University of California at Berkeley and the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center, and he has helped build, design, and program websites for numerous clients including Macworld.com.
In addition to building websites, David is also a writer, trainer, and instructor. He’s taught web design at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, the Center for Electronic Art, the Academy of Art College, Ex’Pressions Center for New Media, and the Art Institute of Portland. He currently teaches in the Multimedia Program at Portland State University. He’s written articles about web design for Practical Web Design, Macworld magazine and CreativePro.com.
David is also the author of Dreamweaver: The Missing Manual, and JavaScript: The Missing Manual.
He welcomes feedback about this book by email: missing@sawmac.com. (If you’re seeking technical help, however, please refer to the sources listed in Appendix C.)
About the Creative Team
Nan Barber (editor) has worked with the Missing Manual series since the previous millennium. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and G4 Macintosh. Email: nanbarber@oreilly.com.
Nellie McKesson (production editor) lives in Brighton, Mass., where she spends her free time playing with her band Dr. & Mrs. Van der Trampp (http://myspace.com/drmrsvandertrampp) and making t-shirts for her friends (http://mattsaundersbynellie.etsy.com). Email: nellie@oreilly.com.
Marcia Simmons (copy editor) is a writer and editor living in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to covering technology and cocktail culture, she has a personal blog at www.smartkitty.org.
Angela Howard (indexer) has been indexing for over 10 years, mostly for computer books, but occasionally for books on other topics such as travel, alternative medicine, and leopard geckos. She lives in California with her husband, daughter, and two cats.
Tony Ruscoe (technical reviewer) is a web developer living in Sheffield, England. His first computer programs were written in Sinclair BASIC on his ZX Spectrum in the mid-1980s. He’s been developing websites and web applications using a variety of programming technologies and techniques since 1997. He currently maintains his personal website ( http://ruscoe.net) and a site dedicated to researching his surname (http://ruscoe.name).
Christopher Schmitt (technical reviewer) is author of numerous web design and digital imaging books, including the CSS Cookbook and has also written for New Architect magazine, and the websites A List Apart, Digital Web, and Web Reference. Christopher is the founder of Heat Vision, a small new media publishing and design firm and an award-winning web designer. He is co-lead of the Adobe Task Force for the Web Standards Project (WaSP). In addition, he chairs AIGA’s In Control Web Design Workshop Conference. Web: http://www.christopherschmitt.com.
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to all those who helped with this book, including my students, who always help me see complex concepts through beginners’ eyes. Thanks to my technical editors, Christopher Schmitt and Tony Ruscoe, who saved me from any embarrassing mistakes, and Zoe Gillenwater whose valuable advice for the first edition of this book lives on. Also, we all owe a big debt of gratitude to the many web designers who have broken new ground by using CSS in creative ways, and shared their discoveries with the web design community.
Finally, thanks to David Pogue whose unflagging enthusiasm and endurance is inspiring; Nan Barber for refining my writing, fixing my mistakes and keeping me on track; my wife, Scholle, for her love and support; my son, Graham, who suggested that I’d get this book done a lot faster if I just typed “Blah, blah, blah, blah, BOO!” for each chapter; my wonderful daughter, Kate, whose smile is always a great pick-me-up; and to my family: Mom, Doug, Mary, David, Marisa, Tessa, Phyllis, Les, Del, Patricia, and Mike.
—David Sawyer McFarland
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