About the Author

How does someone get to be the author of both Transitions and Animations in CSS and Mobile HTML5 (O’Reilly), and coauthor of CSS3 for the Real World (SitePoint)? For Estelle Weyl, the journey was not a direct one. She started out as an architect, used her master’s degree in health and social behavior from the Harvard School of Public Health to lead teen health programs, and then began dabbling in website development. By the time Y2K rolled around, she had become somewhat known as a web standardista at http://www.standardista.com.

Today, she writes a technical blog that pulls in millions of visitors, and speaks about CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript, accessibility, and mobile web development at conferences around the world. In addition to sharing esoteric programming tidbits with her reading public, Estelle has consulted for Kodak Gallery, SurveyMonkey, Visa, Samsung, Yahoo!, and Apple, among others.

When not coding, she spends her time doing construction, striving to remove the last remnants of communal hippiedom from her 1960s throwback home. Basically, it’s just one more way Estelle is working to bring the world into the 21st century.