Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : About

About this site

Online since May 1995, Jeffrey Zeldman Presents is the personal site of designer, writer, and stunt double (wait for it) Jeffrey Zeldman. Jeffrey Zeldman’s Daily Report is one of the oldest continuously published blogs and a registered periodical: ISSN No. 1534-0309.

About Jeffrey Zeldman

Jeffrey is the founder and executive creative director of Happy Cog™, a web design agency with offices in New York City and Philadelphia. Clients include Advertising Age, AIGA, and Amnesty International USA. Since 1998, Happy Cog has published A List Apart “for people who make websites;” a book series is in the works.

In 1998, Jeffrey co-founded—and from 1999 to 2002 he directed—The Web Standards Project, a grassroots coalition that helped bring standards to our browsers. Once browser makers got with the program, Jeffrey and his cohorts persuaded designers and developers to change the way they created websites—an effort to which A List Apart also greatly contributed.

Jeffrey has written many articles and two books, notably the foundational web standards text Designing With Web Standards, now in its second edition.

Jeffrey is the co-founder (with Eric Meyer) of An Event Apart, a single-track design conference focused on web standards, best practices, and inspiration.

A short biography is available at Happy Cog, a longer one at the Wikipedia Encylopedia.

Jeffrey Elsewhere

Photos via Flickr
Real-time links via Ma.gnolia
Real-time playlist via iLike.com
Jeffrey’s Tweets
Jeffrey’s Facebook profile
Designing With Web Standards Facebook group
Jeffrey’s UX Zeitgeist Index
Mahalo Homepage

Production notes

The site is powered by WordPress (why WordPress?), hosted by Media Temple (why Media Temple?), and produced in New York City, USA.

Technote

This page uses the XFN and hCard microformats to add machine-readable semantic richness to its simple text. If you feel moved to do likewise with your own web content, Jeremy Keith’s Natural language hCard tells how.

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