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 his first site—an online magazine for communication professionals. He’s served as webmaster at the University of California at Berkeley and the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center, and oversaw a complete CSS-driven redesign of Macworld.com.
In addition to building websites, David is also a writer, trainer, and instructor. He’s taught web design at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, the Center for Electronic Art, the Academy of Art College, Ex‘Pressions Center for New Media, and Portland State University. He’s written articles about the web for Practical Web Design, MX Developer’s Journal, Macworld magazine, and CreativePro.com.
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 A.)
Nan Barber (editor) is associate editor for the Missing Manual series. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and various electronic devices. Email: nanbarber@gmail.com.
Melanie Yarbrough (production editor) works and plays in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she bakes up whatever she can imagine and bikes around the city. Email: myarbrough@oreilly.com.
Jennifer Davis (technical reviewer) is an engineer with years of experience improving platform development efficiency. As a Chef Automation engineer, she helps companies discover their own best practices to improving workflow reducing mean time to deploy. She is an event organizer for Reliability Engineering, the Bay Area Chef user group.
Alex Stangl (technical reviewer) has developed software professionally for 25+ years, using a myriad of languages and technologies. He enjoys challenging problems and puzzles, learning new languages (currently Clojure), doing technical reviews, and being a good dad and husband. Email: alex@stangl.us.
Jasmine Kwityn (proofreader) is a freelance copyeditor and proofreader. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, Ed, and their three cats, Mushki, Axle, and Punky. Email: jasminekwityn@gmail.com.
Bob Pfahler (indexer) is a freelance indexer who indexed this book on behalf of Potomac Indexing, LLC, an international indexing partnership at www.potomacindexing.com. Besides the subject of computer technology, he specializes in business, management, biography, and history. Email: bobpfahler@hotmail.com.
Many thanks to all those who helped with this book, including Jennifer Davis and Alex Stangl, whose watchful eyes saved me from potentially embarrassing mistakes. Thanks also to my many students at Portland State University who have sat through my long JavaScript lectures and struggled through my programming assignments—especially the members of Team Futzbit (Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell) for testing the tutorials: Julia Hall, Amber Brucker, Kevin Brown, Josh Elliott, Tracy O’Connor, and Blake Womack. Also, we all owe a big debt of gratitude to John Resig and the jQuery team for creating the best tool yet for making JavaScript fun.
Finally, thanks to David Pogue for getting me started; Nan Barber for making my writing sharper and clearer; my wife, Scholle, for putting up with an author’s crankiness; and thanks to my kids, Graham and Kate, because they’re just awesome.
—David Sawyer McFarland
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