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Dubbed King of Web Standards by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman was one of the first designers, bloggers, and independent publishers on the web, and one of the first web design teachers, beginning with "Ask Dr Web" at zeldman.com in 1995. In 1998, he co-founded and designed—and from 1999 to 2002 he directed—The Web Standards Project, a grassroots coalition that helped bring standards to our browsers.

Jeffrey publishes the industry-leading magazine A List Apart (alistapart.com) “for people who make websites," and has written two books, notably the foundational web standards text, Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition, with Ethan Marcotte. He co-founded the web design conference An Event Apart with Eric Meyer (aneventapart.com); and founded ...more

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	Designing With Web Standards 4.10 avg rating — 1,856 ratings — published 2003 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Taking Your Talent to the Web: Making the Transition from Graphic Design to Web Design 3.94 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman (Goodreads Author), Ethan Marcotte 4.41 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Just Enough Research by Erika Hall (Goodreads Author), Jeffrey Zeldman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.10 avg rating — 738 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design with Cascading Style Sheets by Eric A. Meyer, Jeffrey Zeldman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword by) 4.13 avg rating — 280 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement by Aaron Gustafson (Goodreads Author), Jeffrey Zeldman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 290 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Field-Tested Books by Steve Delahoyde, Wendy McClure (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) , Joe Meno (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith, Jeffrey Zeldman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.02 avg rating — 2,693 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	HTML5 pour les web designers (A Book Apart) by Rachel Andrew, Jeremy Keith , Jeffrey Zeldman (Goodreads Author) (Preface) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.”
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“The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace.”
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“Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.”
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“People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of priorities drives their use of time and it can shift away from the ordinary work that’s easy to justify, in favor of the more ethereal, deeper things that are harder to justify. They protect their time from trivia and idiocy; these people are time rich. They provide themselves with a surplus of time. They might seem to idle, or relax more often than the rest, but that just might be a sign of their mastery, not their incompetence.”
― Scott Berkun, Mindfire

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