David Sawyer McFarland is president of Sawyer McFarland Media, Inc., a web development and training company in Portland, Oregon. He’s been building websites since 1995, when he designed 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’s helped build, design, and program numerous sites for clients that include Macworld.com, among others.
In addition to building websites, David is a writer, trainer, and instructor. He’s taught web design at the UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, the Center for Electronic Art, the Academy of Art College, 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, and CreativePro.com.
David is also the author of CSS: The Missing Manual and JavaScript: The Missing Manual.
He welcomes feedback about this book by email at missing@sawmac.com. (If you’re seeking technical help, however, please refer to the sources listed in Appendix A.)
Peter McKie (editor) graduated with a master’s degree from Boston University’s School of Journalism and lives in New York City, where he researches the history of old houses and, every once in a while, sneaks into abandoned buildings. Email: pmckie@oreilly.com.
Adam Zaremba (production editor) has a master’s degree from the Editorial Institute at Boston University. He lives in Chestnut Hill, Mass., and has learned that there are three things never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.
Ron Strauss (indexer) specializes in the indexing of information technology publications of all kinds. Ron is also an accomplished classical violist and lives in northern California with his wife and fellow indexer, Annie, and his miniature pinscher, Kanga. Email: rstrauss@mchsi.com.
Stacie Arellano (proofreader) is a freelance proofreader/copy editor from Wisconsin with a background in marketing and web development. When she isn’t editing, she is working on her fantasy adventure graphic novel at TributeWaters.com. Email: Stacie@StacieArellano.com.
Murray R. Summers (technical reviewer) is an Adobe Certified Dreamweaver Developer and Community Professional. He has co-authored and contributed chapters to several books on Dreamweaver, been the technical editor for the last six editions of the Dreamweaver Missing Manual, and presented at multiple national conferences. His company, Great Web Sights, has been active in web development since 1998. Murray lives in southern Delaware with his wife Suzanne. One daughter attends Clemson University, and the other is a skilled web developer (carolinawebcreations.biz). His two sons live and work in Virginia Beach.
John C. Bland II (technical reviewer) is the founder of Katapult Media Inc., which focuses on desktop, mobile, and web development. Through Katapult, John works diligently on FastKast (http://fastkast.com), which powers numerous low- to high-profile media players. He is a coauthor of ColdFusion Web Application Framework for ColdFusion 9 and Flex 4 in Action. As an Adobe Community Professional, John continues give back to the community that helped mold him into the developer he is today. John blogs regularly at www.johncblandii.com.
Thanks to all of those who have helped with this book (and all of my books over the years): my students, colleagues, and the wonderful people at O’Reilly. But thanks, most of all, to my mom for all the many gifts she gave me. This book is dedicated in loving memory of her.
—Dave McFarland
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