Jeffrey Zeldman

Jeffrey Zeldman

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“Godfather of Web Standards”—Bloomberg Businessweek.

Blogger & OG web designer…

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  • Advice for designers
    Dec 21, 2017

    Advice for designers

    Start by asking questions. Sketch, share your sketches, ask more questions.

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  • Betteridge Jewelers: a Redesign With Heart
    Nov 28, 2017

    Betteridge Jewelers: a Redesign With Heart

    One of the things you discover when doing competitive research across a retail vertical market is how skilled our…

  • MY GLAMOROUS LIFE: THE TRUE STORY OF MY THANKSGIVING
    Nov 24, 2017

    MY GLAMOROUS LIFE: THE TRUE STORY OF MY THANKSGIVING

    TRAVELED 1400 miles to end up in the same place. Flew my daughter Ava from NYC Laguardia to Chicago Midway in the…

  • A Dao of Responsive Liquid
    Nov 19, 2017

    A Dao of Responsive Liquid

    A liquid page will resize to fit whatever size browser window (within reason) that the user has available. … the real…

  • How We Write Proposals in My Design Studio
    Oct 29, 2017

    How We Write Proposals in My Design Studio

    AS THE HEAD of a newish design studio, I spend a fair amount of time writing proposals. And here’s how I like to do it.

  • WHY DON’T NONPROFIT SITES CONVERT?
    Oct 29, 2017

    WHY DON’T NONPROFIT SITES CONVERT?

    Living in New York and working in media, I talk to nonprofit organizations a lot. Big or small, they all say the same.

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  • IT’S JUST LUNCH
    Oct 29, 2017

    IT’S JUST LUNCH

    I HADN’T heard from her in years. Suddenly, there she was in my in-box.

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  • Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Medium?
    May 7, 2015

    Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Medium?

    IN 2003, long before he was a creative director at Twitter, Douglas Bowman wrote articles about design, posted case…

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Experience

  • Automattic Graphic

    Automattic

    Distributed

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    The Internet

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    New York, New York, United States

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    School of Visual Arts, NYC

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    Greater New York City Area

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    The Internet

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    New York & Philadelphia

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Education

  • University of Virginia Graphic

    University of Virginia

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    Activities and Societies: MA, Fiction Writing. Hoyns Fellowship. Davidge Fellowship.

    MFA, Fiction Writing

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Volunteer Experience

  • Suicide Prevention Hotline Graphic

    Volunteer, suicide prevention hotline, while a senior in high school

    Suicide Prevention Hotline

    - 9 months

    It was intense and meaningful.

Publications

  • Responsive Web Design

    A Book Apart

    [Publisher] Since its groundbreaking release in 2011, Responsive Web Design remains a fundamental resource for anyone working on the web.

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    • Ethan Marcotte
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  • Designing With Web Standards, 3rd Edition

    New Riders

    AMAZON REVIEW:

    By B. G. Palin "Avid reader" (Victoria, Canada)

    This review is from: Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition) (Paperback)

    Jeffrey Zeldman did it again. He made a huge impact with his Designing with Web Standards book (1st ed) close to a decade ago. Well, he's published his third edition, and it is as insightful as the first. This book is up to date, and covers modern technologies, from HTML5 to CSS3 to IE8.

    Readers of this book will gain a…

    AMAZON REVIEW:

    By B. G. Palin "Avid reader" (Victoria, Canada)

    This review is from: Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition) (Paperback)

    Jeffrey Zeldman did it again. He made a huge impact with his Designing with Web Standards book (1st ed) close to a decade ago. Well, he's published his third edition, and it is as insightful as the first. This book is up to date, and covers modern technologies, from HTML5 to CSS3 to IE8.

    Readers of this book will gain a valuable insight into the recent history of web standards, be shown where things are now, and get a glimpse at where they may be going.

    Anyone connected to the web development process should read this book: developers (obviously), designers, supervisors. The book uses simple language, is not code-heavy, and is readable by programmers and non-programmers.

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    • Ethan Marcotte
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  • Designing With Web Standards, 2nd Edition

    New Riders

    Best-selling author, designer, and web standards evangelist Jeffrey Zeldman has updated his classic, industry-shaking guidebook. This new edition--now in full color--covers improvements in best practices and advances in the world of browsers since the first edition introduced the world to standards-based design. Written in the same engaging and witty style, making even the most complex information easy to digest, it remains an essential guide to creating sites that load faster, reach more…

    Best-selling author, designer, and web standards evangelist Jeffrey Zeldman has updated his classic, industry-shaking guidebook. This new edition--now in full color--covers improvements in best practices and advances in the world of browsers since the first edition introduced the world to standards-based design. Written in the same engaging and witty style, making even the most complex information easy to digest, it remains an essential guide to creating sites that load faster, reach more users, and cost less to design and maintain. Readers will learn from Jeffrey's insights as he demonstrates how web standards are driving search engine friendliness (findability) and the Web 2.0 applications that have reinvigorated the medium and the online marketplace. Readers will discover new techniques to make CSS layouts work better across multiple browsers and ways to make web content more accessible. Designing with Web Standards is an AIGA Design Press book, published under Peachpit's New Riders imprint in partnership with AIGA.

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  • Designing With Web Standards

    New Riders

    From WIKIPEDIA:

    Designing with Web Standards[1] is a web development book by Jeffrey Zeldman (3rd edition with Ethan Marcotte). Zeldman co-founded the Web Standards Project in 1998 and served as its director during the formative years when the project was petitioning browser makers to support standards. Zeldman left the project in 2003.

    The book’s audience is primarily web development professionals who are focused on web standards design work. DWS is used as a textbook in over 85…

    From WIKIPEDIA:

    Designing with Web Standards[1] is a web development book by Jeffrey Zeldman (3rd edition with Ethan Marcotte). Zeldman co-founded the Web Standards Project in 1998 and served as its director during the formative years when the project was petitioning browser makers to support standards. Zeldman left the project in 2003.

    The book’s audience is primarily web development professionals who are focused on web standards design work. DWS is used as a textbook in over 85 colleges, including New York University, UCLA, Dartmouth and Brigham Young University.


    Written by Jeffrey Zeldman, a staunch proponent of web standards and founder of the award-winning web design studio Happy Cog, Designing with Web Standards guides the reader on how to better utilize web standards pragmatically to create accessible, user-friendly web sites.

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  • Taking Your Talent to the Web: A Guide for the Transitioning Designer

    ISBN-13: 075-2064710738 ISBN-10: 0735710732

    RATED FIVE STARS at Amazon.com since the day it was published, Taking Your Talent to the Web (PDF) is now a free downloadable book from zeldman.com

    I wrote this book in 2001 for print designers whose clients want websites, print art directors who’d like to move into full–time web and interaction design, homepage creators who are ready to turn pro, and professionals who seek to deepen their web skills and understanding.

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Projects

  • Publications

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    For People Who Make Websites

    A List Apart (ISSN: 1534-0295) explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.

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  • Designing With Web Standards

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    First published in 2003, with revised editions in 2007 and a third edition in 2009 co-authored with Ethan Marcotte. Published by New Riders, it persuades web professionals to build sites using W3C standards: semantic HTML/XHTML, CSS for presentation, and JavaScript/DOM for behavior—the trinity.

    The book is credited with converting the industry from the tag-soup, table-layout era to standards-based design. The first half consolidated the case for web standards in terms of accessibility…

    First published in 2003, with revised editions in 2007 and a third edition in 2009 co-authored with Ethan Marcotte. Published by New Riders, it persuades web professionals to build sites using W3C standards: semantic HTML/XHTML, CSS for presentation, and JavaScript/DOM for behavior—the trinity.

    The book is credited with converting the industry from the tag-soup, table-layout era to standards-based design. The first half consolidated the case for web standards in terms of accessibility, SEO, portability toward mobile and emerging environments, and lowered bandwidth and production costs—addressing marketers and site owners as much as developers. The second half got into the practical how-to. The work ended up as a textbook in over 85 colleges.

    Testimonials:
    Steve Krug (Don’t Make Me Think): "Occasionally (very occasionally) you come across an author who makes you think, 'This guy is smart! And he makes me feel smarter, because now I finally understand this concept.'" Amazon

    Dan Cederholm (Bulletproof Web Design): "A web designer without a copy of Designing with Web Standards is like a carpenter without a level. With this third edition, Zeldman continues to be the voice of clarity; explaining the complex in plain English for the rest of us." Barnes & Noble

    Kelly Goto (Web ReDesign 2.0): "Jeffrey Zeldman sits somewhere between 'guru' and 'god' in this industry — and manages to fold wisdom and wit into a tale about WHAT web standards are, HOW standards-based coding works, and WHY we should care." Barnes & Noble

    Liz Danzico, then Chair of MFA Interaction Design at SVA: "Designing with Web Standards is intended to be highlighted, dogeared, bookmarked, shared, passed around, and evangelized — it goes beyond reading to revolution." Amazon UK

    Not bad for a technical book.

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Honors & Awards

  • SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame

    SXSW Interactive

    In 2012, Jeffrey Zeldman was the first designer inducted in the SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame.

  • Design Agency of the Year

    .net Magazine

    Happy Cog took home the award for Design Agency of the Year, edging out Centersource and Clearleft (who took the prize in 2009).

  • Video Podcast of the Year

    .net Magazine

    Dan Benjamin and Jeffrey Zeldman won “Video Podcast of the Year” for The Big Web Show.

  • Web Standards Champion

    .net Magazine

  • Web Standards Champion

    .net Magazine

  • Web Standards Champion

    .net Magazine

Languages

  • French (a bit)

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