Christopher Schmitt is the principal of
Heatvision.com, Inc., a new media publishing and design firm based
in Tallahassee, Florida. An award-winning Web designer who has been
working with the Web since 1993, he interned for both David Siegel
and Lynda Weinman in the mid-1990s while an undergraduate at
Florida State University pursuing a Fine Arts degree with emphasis
on graphic design. He is the author of
The CSS Cookbook
(O'Reilly, 2004) and
Designing CSS Web Pages (New Riders
Press, 2002). He is also the co-author (with Micah Laaker) of
Photoshop CS in 10 Simple Steps or Less (Wiley, 2004) and
contributed four chapters to
XML, HTML, & XHTML Magic
by Molly Holzschlag (New Riders Press, 2001). Christopher has also
written for
New Architect magazine,
A List Apart,
Digital Web, and
Web Reference. In 2000, he led a
team to victory in the "Cool Site in a Day" competition, wherein he
and five other talented developers built a fully functional,
well-designed Web site for a non-profit organization in eight
hours. Speaking at conferences such as The Other Dreamweaver
Conference and SXSW, he has given talks demonstrating the use and
benefits of practical CSS-enabled designs. Also helping to spread
the word about Web design, he is the list mom for Babble
(www.babblelist.com), a mailing list community devoted to advanced
Web design and development topics. On his personal Web site,
www.christopherschmitt.com, he shows his true colors and most
recent activities. He is 6''7" tall and does not play professional
basketball, but he wouldn't mind a good game of chess.
Mark Trammell of Gainesville, Florida, directs
the Web presence at the University of Florida.
Ethan Marcotte of Boston co-founded Vertua
Studios (vertua.com), a Web design shop focused on creating
beautiful, user-focused sites. A steering committee member of the
Web Standards Project, he is a leading industry voice on
standards-based Web design. Ethan is also the curator of
sidesh0w.com, a popular Web log that is equal parts design, coding,
and blather.
Dunstan Orchard of Dorset, UK, and San
Francisco is Senior UI Engineer at Apple's online store. He is a
member of The Web Standards Project, a silent developer for the
popular open source blogging platform Wordpress, and an occasional
contributor to his own site at http://1976design.com/.
Todd Dominey of Atlanta founded Dominey Design
(domineydesign.com), an interactive Web development and design
studio that has produced original work for Budweiser, The
Washington Post, Google, Winterfresh Gum, and others. He is also a
Senior Interactive Designer at Turner Sports Interactive, designing
and developing Web destinations for major PGA tournaments
(including the PGA Championship and The Ryder Cup).