About Alexis Goldstein
Alexis Goldstein first taught herself HTML while a high school
student in the mid-1990s, and went on to get her degree in Computer
Science from Columbia University. She runs her own software development
and training company, aut faciam LLC. Before striking out on her own,
Alexis spent seven years in technology on Wall Street, where she worked in
both the cash equity and equity derivative spaces at three major firms,
and learned to love daily code reviews. She is a teacher and co-organizer
of Girl Develop It, a group that conducts low-cost programming classes for
women, and a very proud member of the NYC Resistor hackerspace in
Brooklyn, NY. You can find Alexis at her website, http://alexisgo.com/.
About Louis Lazaris
Louis Lazaris is a freelance web designer and front-end developer
based in Toronto, Canada who has been involved in the web design industry
since 2000. Louis has been working on websites ever since the days when
table layouts and one-pixel GIFs dominated the industry. Over the past
five years he has transitioned to embrace web standards while endeavoring
to promote best practices that help both developers and their clients
reach practical goals for their projects. Louis writes regularly for a
number of top web design blogs including his own site, Impressive Webs
(http://www.impressivewebs.com/.
About Estelle Weyl
Estelle Weyl is a front-end engineer from San Francisco who has been
developing standards-based accessible websites since 1999. Estelle began
playing with CSS3 when the iPhone was released in 2007, and after four
years of web application development for mobile WebKit, she knows (almost)
every CSS3 quirk on WebKit, and has vast experience implementing
components of HTML5. She writes two popular technical blogs with tutorials
and detailed grids of CSS3 and HTML5 browser support (http://www.standardista.com/). Estelle’s passion is
teaching web development, where you’ll find her speaking on CSS3, HTML5,
JavaScript, and mobile web development at conferences around the USA (and,
she hopes, the world).
About the Expert Reviewer
Russ Weakley has worked in the design field for over 18 years,
primarily in web design and development, and web training. Russ co-chairs
the Web Standards Group and is a founding committee member of the Web
Industry Professionals Association of Australia (WIPA). Russ has produced
a series of widely acclaimed CSS tutorials, and is internationally
recognized for his presentations and workshops. He manages Max Design
(http://maxdesign.com.au/).
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