Jeffrey Zeldman

JEFFREY ZELDMAN is the co-founder (with Eric Meyer) of An Event Apart, and the founder and executive creative director of Happy Cog™, a leading web design agency with studios in New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.

In 1995, the former art director and copywriter launched one of the first personal websites AKA blogs (Jeffrey Zeldman Presents) and began publishing web design tutorials. In 1998 he co-founded (and for several years led) The Web Standards Project, a grassroots coalition that brought standards to our browsers. That same year, he launched A List Apart, the leading online magazine “for people who make websites.”

Jeffrey has written many articles and two books, notably the foundational web standards text Designing With Web Standards, now in its third edition. 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-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 the SXSW Interactive Festival and Rosenfeld Media. More biographical information is available at Wikipedia, Happy Cog, Google, Amazon, A List Apart, and Ask.com.

Photo: Carrie Bickner. Used with permission.