Jeffrey Zeldman
Founder/Executive Creative Director
One of the first web designers, Zeldman has had a pronounced impact on the medium and the profession. In 1995, the former art director and copywriter launched one of the first personal sites and began publishing widely-read tutorials on methods and principles of web design.
In 1998 he co-founded The Web Standards Project, a grassroots coalition that persuaded Microsoft and Netscape to support the same technologies in their browsers. That same year he began publishing A List Apart “for people who make websites.” It has become one of the most respected and influential magazines in the field.
He has written many articles and two books, notably Designing With Web Standards (now in its second edition), and is a favorite of lecture audiences around the world. In 2005, he and Eric Meyer co-founded An Event Apart, a traveling conference on design and code.
Zeldman sits on the Advisory Boards of the SXSW Interactive Festival, Rosenfeld Media, and the Dandelife Social Biography Network, among others. A biographical listing in the Wikipedia Encyclopedia, plus extensive results in search engines and social ranking networks such as Google (2,360,000 results at last count), Technorati, and Ask.com, testify to his pervasiveness across the medium.
Selected Articles and Publications
- Designing With Web Standards
- The web design movement’s foundational text, second edition; New Riders, 2006 (first edition, 2003)
- Taking Your Talent to the Web
- A guide for transitioning designers; New Riders, 2001
- Understanding Web Design
- November 2007, the true art of web design, A List Apart
- Web 3.0
- January 2006, web design politics, A List Apart
- Style vs. Design (PDF)
- 2005, understanding design, Adobe.com
(updated from 2001 original, also for Adobe.com) - Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE!
- April 2002, web standards education and advocacy, A List Apart
- Better Living Through XHTML
- February 2002, web standards education and advocacy, A List Apart
- NYPL Online Style Guide
- (Co-author, with Carrie Bickner, October 2001, web standards education and advocacy, The New York Public Library
- To Hell With Bad Browsers
- February 2001, web standards education and advocacy, A List Apart
- Fear of Style Sheets
- March 1999, early web standards education and advocacy, A List Apart
Personal site: zeldman.com