Dubbed King of Web Standards by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman co-founded the multi-city web design conference An Event Apart with Eric Meyer; publishes A List Apart “for people who make websites,” a leading journal of web design thought since 1998; and founded and is chairman of Happy Cog™, a design studio with offices in New York, Philadelphia, and Austin.

Jeffrey has written two books, notably the foundational web standards text, Designing With Web Standards, currently in a 3rd Edition coauthored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 different languages, including (for the last edition) Italian, Chinese, Hungarian, Polish and Portuguese. The book, together with The Web Standards Project which Jeffrey co-founded in 1998, is widely credited with converting the web design industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility via correct use of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. His first book, Taking Your Talent to The Web, is now available as a free download.

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