July 2008
Beginner
543 pages
17h 59m
English
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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 Web 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 Web sites, 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.)
About the Creative Team
Nan Barber (editor) has worked with the Missing Manual series since its inception—long enough to remember booting up her computer from a floppy disk. Email: nanbarber@oreilly.com.
Nellie McKesson (production editor) is a graduate of St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She currently lives in Jamaica Plain, Mass., and spends her spare time making ...
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