About this site

ONLINE SINCE MAY 1995, Jeffrey Zeldman Presents is the personal site of designer, writer, and publisher Jeffrey Zeldman. “Jeffrey Zeldman Presents the Daily Report” is one of the oldest continuously published personal sites and a registered periodical: ISSN No. 1534-0309.

About Jeffrey Zeldman

Jeffrey Zeldman

DUBBED KING of Web Standards by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman 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, and 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.

Jeffrey co-founded the multi-city web design conference An Event Apart with Eric Meyer, and co-founded and publishes A Book Apart, brief books for people who make websites with Mandy Brown and Jason Santa Maria. He hosts weekly design podcast The Big Web Show (.net Magazine Video Podcast of the Year 2010, and Podcast of the Year 2011), and is a faculty member on the MFA, Interaction Design program at School of Visual Arts.

In 2012, Jeffrey Zeldman was the first human inducted into the SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame. He tweets prolifically at @zeldman and has blogged and shared web design concepts and techniques at Jeffrey Zeldman Presents since 1995. His speaking schedule is available for your perusal.

Two-Hundred Word Bio

Dubbed “King of Web Standards” by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman founded and is chairman of Happy Cog™, a high-end design studio with offices in Philadelphia, Austin, and New York, and has published A List Apart Magazine “for people who make websites” since 1998. He has written two books, notably the foundational text, Designing With Web Standards, currently in a 3rd Edition coauthored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages and is credited with converting the web design industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility.

Jeffrey co-founded the multi-city web design conference An Event Apart with Eric Meyer; with Mandy Brown and Jason Santa Maria he co-founded the publishing house A Book Apart, responsible for such groundbreaking titles as Responsive Web Design (Ethan Marcotte), Design Is A Job (Mike Monteiro), Mobile First (Luke Wroblewski), and Content Strategy For Mobile (Karen McGrane).

He hosts weekly design podcast The Big Web Show (twice winner of .net Magazine Podcast of the Year), and is a faculty member on the MFA, Interaction Design program at School of Visual Arts. In 2012, Jeffrey Zeldman was the first human inducted in the SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame.

Hundred Word Bio

Designer, writer, entrepreneur. Founder: A List Apart magazine for people who make websites (1998), Happy Cog™ design studios (1999). Author of foundational web standards text, Designing With Web Standards, currently in 3rd edition, translated into 15 languages. Host, The Big Web Show weekly podcast (“Everything Web That Matters”). Publisher and co-founder, A Book Apart – brief books for people who make websites. Co-founder, An Event Apart design conference, now in eight cities. Faculty, MFA Interaction Design program, School of Visual Arts NYC. First inductee, SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame. @zeldman alistapart.com zeldman.com aneventapart.com happycog.com

Fifty Word Bio

Designer, writer, entrepreneur. Founder: A List Apart magazine (1998), Happy Cog™ design studios (1999). Author, Designing With Web Standards (currently in 3rd edition). Host, The Big Web Show. Publisher, A Book Apart books. Co-founder, An Event Apart design conference. First inductee, SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame. @zeldman alistapart.com

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Pardon My Archives

HERE YOU WILL FIND ancient zeldman.com content in its original format.

The Ad Graveyard
Real ads that almost ran. 1995–1998.
Pardon My Icons
Unusual icons for your desktop or website. 1995–1998.
If the Great Movies Had Been Websites
What if Orson Welles had kept a web diary? 1999.
Fifteen Minutes
Interviews with movie stars and web designers, 1996–1999, in original cheesy format.
Wallpaper
Dress that desktop for success. (1997?)
Waterbox
For your listening pleasure, music by Jeffrey Zeldman.
Gifplex
Early multimedia experiment. 1995.
Lawrence Welk, Postmodernist
We come to praise him. 1995.
Letter from Istanbul
Rocking the cradle of civilization. An unfinished travelogue. 1998.
Linker’s Delight
Obsolete banners.
Mr Jenkins’s Last Martini (removed)
The web’s first alcoholic haiku contest.
Ask Dr Web 1995–1998 (removed)
A complete guide to web design, 90s-style.

Web Design Bookmarklets

FOR YOUR PLEASURE. To test, click any link. To install, drag to your browser’s bookmarks bar.

Resize 800
Moves your browser to the left (allowing room for tool bars such as DragThing), resizes it to 800px wide by xx high, where xx is the height of your monitor minus space at the bottom for your Dock or Task Bar.
Resize 1024
Same as above, but makes your browser window 1024px wide.
Validate
Test your page for markup errors.

Credits

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