About – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report

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 the author

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. 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 founded and is executive creative director of Happy Cog™, a high-end web design agency with studios in New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. He publishes the industry-leading magazine A List Apart “for people who make websites;” has written two books, notably the foundational web standards text, Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition with Ethan Marcotte. His Taking Your Talent to the Web, rated five stars at Amazon.com since the day it was published, is now a free downloadable book (PDF, 9.5 MB).

Jeffrey co-founded the multi-city web design conference An Event Apart with Eric Meyer; co-hosts The Big Web Show with Dan Benjamin; is the publisher of the new “A Book Apart” series of short books for people who make websites; and is a faculty member on the MFA, Interaction Design program at School of Visual Arts.

Jeffrey serves on the Advisory Boards of SXSW Interactive and Rosenfeld Media (Emeritus) and is a co-founder of The Deck advertising network. Before becoming a web designer, he worked as a composer and musician; as a writer for The Washington Post and City Paper; and as an advertising creative at DeVito/Verdi and elsewhere. He lives in New York City with his daughter Ava.

Additional information is available at Wikipedia, Happy Cog, Google, Amazon, Facebook, A List Apart, &c.

Pardon My Archives

Here you’ll 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 Favorites or 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.