About The Authors

Andrew Clarke

Andrew Clarke is a designer, author and speaker who’s known for his design work, books, conference presentations and contributions to the community. Jeffrey Zeldman (the Godfather of Web standards) once called him a “triple talented bastard.” If you know of Jeffrey, you’ll know how happy that made him. Over the last fourteen years, he has made designs for amazing clients and written two books, ‘Transcending CSS’ and ‘Hardboiled Web Design.’ He has given over 50 conference presentations and hosted workshops and training events for other Web professionals all over the world. Twitter: @Malarkey¹. Website: Stuff & Nonesense².

Andy Rutledge

Andy Rutledge is a UX design lead at Kalkomey in Dallas, Texas. When not working or with his family, he’s likely either on the bike or at his piano. You can follow Andy on Twitter. Website: AndyRutledge.com³.

Brian Scordato

Brian Scordato is the founder of Find Your Lobster⁴. He also teaches entrepreneurship and business/product development at General Assembly, and serves as EIR at Mayday-Mayday-Mayday⁵, a branding and creative consultancy. Brian currently lives in New York City, but he’s a Tar Heel at heart. Twitter: @Dato22⁶. Blog: http://datodaily.tumblr.com/⁷.

Jeremy Girard

Jeremy Girard was born with six toes on each foot. The extra toes were removed before he was a year old, robbing him of any super-powers and ending his crime-fighting career before it even began. Unable to battle the forces of evil, he instead works as the Director of Marketing and Head of Web Design/Development for the Providence, Rhode Island based EnvisionTechnology Advisors. He also teaches website design and front-enddevelopment at the University of Rhode Island. His portfolio and blog, at Pumpkin-King.com⁸, is where he writes about all things Web design. You can also find Jeremy on Twitter @jeremymgirard⁹.

Leonard Souza

Leonard Souza (follow him @_leonardsouza_¹⁰) loves instigating epic battles between the left and right hemispheres of his brain. Upon studying both Computer Science and Fine Art, he has worked hard at mashing the two disciplines into fun and exciting solutions to complicated problems. Today, he happily works for EffectiveUI¹¹ (@effectiveui¹²) as a Lead Experience Architect, where he is given many opportunities to play with art and technology. Over the years, Leonard has been fortunate enough to work with several outstanding companies such as Panasonic, DirectTV, Intel, MGM, FedEX and Boeing, as well as many startups. Leonard lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with his wife and two young boys.

Mark Reeves

Mark Reeves is a Web developer and founder of Clearbold, a development & consulting practice focused on content management and front-end Web development. You can find him on Twitter¹³, subscribe to his newsletter¹⁴ or visit Clearbold.com¹⁵.

Paul Boag

Paul Boag has been working with the Web since 1994. He is now co-founder of the Web design agency Headscape¹⁶, where he works closely with clients to establish their Web strategy. Paul is a prolific writer having written the Website Owners Manual¹⁷, Building Websites for Return on Investment¹⁸, Client Centric Web Design¹⁹, Digital Adaptation²⁰ and numerous articles for publications such as .net magazine, Smashing Magazine and the Web Designers Depot. Paul also speaks extensively on various aspects of Web design both at conferences across the world and on his award winning Web design podcast boagworld²¹. Website: boagworld²². Twitter: @boagworld²³. You can also find Paul on Google+²⁴.

Sam Barnes

Sam Barnes is a Development Team Manager at Global Personals²⁵. Although a little short for a Stormtrooper, he can be found posting articles at thesambarnes.com²⁶, a blog dedicated to the subject of Web Project Management. Twitter: @thesambarnes²⁷.

About Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine²⁸ is an online magazine dedicated to Web designers and developers worldwide. Its rigorous quality control and thorough editorial work has gathered a devoted community exceeding half a million subscribers, followers and fans. Each and every published article is carefully prepared, edited, reviewed and curated according to the high quality standards set in Smashing Magazine's own publishing policy²⁹.

Smashing Magazine publishes articles on a daily basis with topics ranging from business, visual design, typography, front-end as well as back-end development, all the way to usability and user experience design. The magazine is — and always has been — a professional and independent online publication neither controlled nor influenced by any third parties, delivering content in the best interest of its readers. These guidelines are continually revised and updated to assure that the quality of the published content is never compromised. Since its emergence back in 2006 Smashing Magazine has proven to be a trustworthy online source.