Jeffrey Zeldman is among the web's best-known web designers, authors, and teachers. His personal site, zeldman.com , has welcomed over 16 million visitors and is a daily industry read. Jeffrey is the founder of Happy Cog Studios, the publisher of A List Apart Magazine, and the author of Designing With Web Standards (New Riders, 2003) and Taking Your Talent to the Web (New Riders, 2001).

Dave Shea is a Canadian web designer, and author of "The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web". He is known for his work in web-standard development—from his design community project CSS Zen Garden to his active contributions at the Web Standards Project (WaSP). Shea is also writer “for a large global audience of web designers and developers on his popular weblog, Mezzoblue”; and he is founder and creative director of Bright Creative in Vancouver, BC.

Molly Holzschlag Former Group Lead and Member Emerita Molly E. Holzschlag is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author. Molly is an invited expert to the Internationalization GEO and HTML working groups at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is the former Group Lead and member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP). Among her thirty-plus books is the recent The Zen of CSS Design, co-authored with Dave Shea.

Stuart Langridge (also known as 'Aq') is a web and software developer based in the United Kingdom. Langridge is the author of two books, DHTML Utopia, and Run Your Own Web Server Using Linux & Apache (with Tony Steidler-Dennison) for technical publishers SitePoint. Also for SitePoint, he wrote the Stylish Scripting weblog during 2005. Langridge is a member of the Web Standards Project's DOM Scripting Task Force and is an acknowledged commentator on DOM Scripting techniques.

Håkon Wium Lie is, as of 2006, Chief Technology Officer of Opera Software, where he has worked since 1999. He attended Østfold College, West Georgia College and MIT Media Lab receiving an MS in Visual Studies in 1991. On February 17th, 2006 he successfully defended his PhD thesis at University of Oslo. He is best known for proposing the concept of Cascading Style Sheets in 1994. He has worked for, among others, the W3C, INRIA, CERN, …

Thomas Vander Wal is an information architect best known for coining the term "folksonomy". He's also known for initiating the term "infocloud". His works has been with the Web and with information design and structure. He has worked for the INDUS Corporation in Bethesda, Maryland, is a member of the Founding Leadership Council for The Information Architecture Institute, and the Steering Committee for the Web Standards Project (WaSP).

Thomas Marban, a native of Austria, is co-founder of werk3, one of the countries first web-agencies and creator of PopUrls, a famous mashup of the web's most visited social news sites and portals that created a new trend in so called Single Page Aggregators. Thomas maintains Screenfluent, a daily weblog of recent trends in screendesign. He is part of to the Web Standards Project and Jury member of the annual WebAwards.

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Thomas Vander Wal , Principal and Senior Consultant, InfoCloud Solutions Thomas Vander Wal has a broad background in information management, encompassing information architecture, interaction design, web development and information design. Thomas has 18 years of professional experience in the web and information technology sector.

Anders develops Web-based and GUI applications and provides programming and technology support for CCNMTL, specializing in Python, Perl, XML, XSLT, GNU /Linux, and database design. He is a graduate of Columbia University, where he received his B.S. in Computer Engineering. He also holds a B.S. in Engineering from Bates College and studied Chinese at the University of Nanjing. Anders fights to keep the Web open to all as a member of the Web Standards Project .

Glenda Sims WaSP Member, International Liaison Group Co-Lead Glenda Sims is a Senior Systems Analyst at the University of Texas at Austin . As a member of Team Web, Glenda helps support the central web site for the University. She is the self-appointed accessibility goddess and web standards evangelist. Glenda is an advisor and co-founder of AIR-University ( Accessibility Internet Rally ) and AccessU .

Patrick currently works as Web Editor for the University of Salford, where he heads a small central web team. In 2003 he implemented one of the first web standards based XHTML/CSS driven UK university sites.

Andy Clarke has been working on the web for almost ten years. He is a visual web designer based in the UK and started his design consultancy Stuff and Nonsense in 1998. As lead designer and creative director, his clients include national and international businesses, charities and government bodies. Andy is a member of the Web Standards Project where he redesigned the organization’s web site in 2006. He is also an invited expert to the W3C’s CSS Working Group.

Jeffrey is an internationally sought-after speaker, author, and user experience consultant. As a consultant, Jeffrey has been involved in designing the leading blog and social media applications on the web, including Blogger, TypePad, Flickr, and more. Previously, Jeffrey served as the Executive Director of Interface Design for Wired Digital and Lycos Inc., where he managed the look and feel of HotWired, the HotBot search engine, Lycos.com and others.

Rob Dickerson is a database administrator - web developer living in central Pennsylvania and responsible for a number of sites at The Pennsylvania State University . He is a founding member of the Penn State Web Standards Users Group , and is currently active with the Content Management Best Practices group, and the Penn State Web Conference Steering committee. His severely neglected online home can be found at robdickerson.com .

Randy Runnels , Programmer Randy is a programmer and founding partner of T.H. Creations, Inc., a Maine web development firm providing hosting, web design, and web application expertise since 1999. Randy is part of the Encompass team, providing back-end programming support of all websites and Internet activities for clients.

My primary role at Waterloo is to enhance the institutions online communications, which means I get to try out a lot of really cool web based technologies. I am not entirely sure what the equivilent of my job is outside of higher education but it is an awful lot of fun working with new technology and applying it to the university web space. I love the web, I love teaching people about the utility of web based technologies, and I love figuring out new things to do with the technologies.

Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he's spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now works as a Web Developer for Yahoo! Europe in London, UK. Prior to this, Drew primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Caburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net.

George Olsen is the principal of Interaction By Design , an editor of Boxes and Arrows , and a co-founder and group leader emeritus of The Web Standards Project . He’s taught at UCLA Extension, and written and spoken at numerous conferences about user experience design. Articles By This Author

Stephanie Sullivan is principal at W3Conversions , a web standards and accessibility redesign company. Her expertise has made her the lead slicer/dicer/CSS chef for several smart web companies and developers. She is an Adobe Certified Expert , a partner at Community MX , a writer, tech editor, speaker, trainer, consultant, list mom , troubleshooter and evangelist. Though she loves making web sites fast-loading and lean, Stephanie loves beach volleyball even more.

Dave Shea is the creator and cultivator of the highly influential web site csszengarden.com , and co-author of the recently-published Zen of CSS Design (New Riders, 2005). The founder and design lead of Bright Creative in Vancouver , BC , Dave also writes for a large global audience of web designers and developers on his popular weblog, mezzoblue.com . His sites have won multiple awards, including ‘Best of Show 2004′ at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, TX.

Rachel Andrew is a UK web developer and Director of web development consultancy edgeofmyseat.com . When not writing code, she writes about writing code and is the co-author of several books promoting the practical usage of Web Standards alongside other everyday tools and technologies. Rachel takes a common sense, real world approach to web standards, with her writing and teaching being based on the experiences she has in her own company every day.

Bruce Lawson was brand manager of glasshaus, which produced books on web standards, usability and accessibility. When the company folded, he began consulting and building web sites with the same emphasis as his books. Having been a teacher, in the Accessibility Task Force he’s involved in outreach rather than developing cutting-edge techniques.

Sam Spencer Microsoft Task Force Member Sam Spencer is a Program Manager on the Web Platform & Tools team at Microsoft . As a program manager Sam is responsible for the planning, design and implantation of various parts of the web development features of visual studio including the source editing support and project system. Prior to working on the web development tools, Sam was a member of the Visual Basic team where he owned code editing and debugging.

About Stephanie Sullivan Stephanie Sullivan , founder and principal of W3Conversions, has been a web professional since 1999. A sought-after speaker, tech editor, corporate trainer, author, and coding guru, she's called on to solve especially perplexing problems for high-profile websites. Her true passion is creating impeccable markup and code behind the design, and teaching others how to do the same.

Zoe Gillenwater Zoe Gillenwater is an experienced web designer, project manager, and technical author, active in the web standards community. She uses her expert knowledge of CSS, XHTML, Dreamweaver, accessibility, and visual design in all aspects of her career. Zoe loves teaching web design as much as she loves learning and doing it herself.

Matt May , Web Accessibility Specialist Matt May is a developer, technologist, and accessibility advocate. His resume includes user experience design, technical architecture, and standards development and advocacy. At W3C/WAI, he worked on many of the standards for Web accessibility, and he continues to participate in the Web Standards Project's Accessibility Task Force.

Sally Khudairi , CEO In March 1999, Khudairi founded ZOT Group , a Web strategy consultancy focusing on standards, networking and communications. Active in the Web since 1993, she successfully directed and implemented communications strategies for some of the industry's best known technologies, including XML , HTML 3.2 , HTML 4.0 , PICS , HTTP/1.1 , and Cascading Style Sheets .

Steven Champeon has over eight years of Internet-related computing and management experience, having worked with companies such as IBM, Odigo, Oxford University Press, Nerve, Bigelow Tea, and more to develop and implement their Web presences. He is now the Vice President of hesketh.com/inc., a Raleigh, NC-based Web design and development services company.

Simon St. Laurent is a web developer, network administrator, computer book author, and XML troublemaker living in Ithaca, NY. His books include XML:A Primer , XML Elements of Style , Building XML Applications , Cookies , and Sharing Bandwidth . He is a contributing editor to xmlhack and an occasional contributor to XML.com .

Joe Crawford , Web Integrator, Jamison/Gold Interactive, Marina del Rey, CA Joe Crawford has been working and hacking on the Web since early 1997. For a long while, he worked as a freelancer and contractor doing animation, graphics, html, scripting, and perl. Most recently, he served as Web Integrator for Jamison/Gold Interactive, where he worked on high profile Websites including Namco America, Midway Games, and Energizer Batteries.

Mike Davies is a Web Developer for Yahoo! Europe , based in Central London . His previous job was as a Technical Lead Web Developer for Legal & General (a FTSE-100 company) on their web accessibility initiative - a project that was capped off by being a case study of the business benefits of web accessibility at the launch of PAS 78 in March 2006. Online, he uses the moniker Isofarro where he participates in a number of web standards, accessibility and XML focused groups.

Dori Smith is co-author of the best-selling JavaScript for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, 3rd Edition and the author of Java for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide , both from Peachpit Press. She has also contributed to numerous computer industry magazines. In addition to writing, she has been programming for over twenty years, with degrees from UC Irvine and UC San Diego, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

Dan Shafer , Editorial Director, Builder Division, CNET Builder.com, Dan Shafer is highly regarded among the Internet community as a Guru of Web development. Shafer has also authored more than 50 books including the best-selling HyperTalk Programming, Smalltalk Programming for Windows, Silicon Visions, JavaScript and Netscape Wizardry, and most recently, NetObjects Fusion 2 Design Guide .

Jared Smith , M.S., is Director of Education Initiatives and an instructional designer, Web developer, and accessibility trainer for WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind) , a project at the Center for Persons with Disabilities at Utah State University. He specializes in training Web developers, IT professionals, and educators in Web accessibility principles and techniques. He has developed accessible course content, Web multimedia, distance education tools, and database-driven Web sites.

Nate Zelnick , Freelance Writer, Boston Zelnick has been a reporter covering technology (among other things) since 1990. He also writes the bi-weekly columns "Under Development" for Internet World and "The XML Files" for the Web magazine Webdeveloper.com. He has worked at PC Magazine, edited a number of newsletters related to the Internet and the electronic information industry, and was Technical Editor of Webweek/Internet World.

Tom Negrino is a book author and a contributing editor for Macworld magazine, focusing on Web tools. His latest books are Quicken 2000 for Windows: Visual Quickstart Guide and Quicken 2000 for Macintosh: Visual Quickstart Guide (Peachpit Press). He also wrote Microsoft Office 98 for Macs for Dummies, and co-authored the best-selling JavaScript: Visual Quickstart Guide, 3rd Edition (with Dori Smith ).

Nick Fitzsimons has been developing web applications since 1996. Prior that he was successively a systems software engineer, a games programmer and a pub manager. He now works at Jellyfish Creative

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Martin Diekhoff , through 20 years of applications programming, writing, and traditional media work, has published works on story structure, programming, and the Web. As an applications designer and engineer, he's developed and deployed software for use around the globe. With the WaSP, his contributions have ranged from founding, to technical, to practical strategy issues facing the WaSP and developers in their push for browser standards.