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“King of Web Standards”—Bloomberg Businessweek.

Employer Brand at Automattic. Blogging since 1995. Founder & Publisher, A List Apart for people who make websites (since 1998). Co-founded the multi-city user experience design conference An Event Apart with Eric Meyer in 2005. Founder of studio.zeldman, a web and interaction design studio in New York. Founder Emeritus of Happy Cog, an award winning digital design studio. Publisher and co-founder of A Book Apart—brief books for web and interaction designers.

Have written two books, notably the foundational web standards text, Designing With Web Standards, currently in a 3rd Edition co-authored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages, including (for the last edition) Italian ...more

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	HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith, Jeffrey Zeldman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.98 avg rating — 3,138 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Taking Your Talent to the Web: A Guide for the Transitioning Designer 3.93 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Rise of Nazi Germany: The History of the Events that Brought Adolf Hitler to Power

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“Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.”
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“The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace.”
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“Content precedes design. Design in advance of content is not design, it’s decoration.”
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“Spec = asking the world to have sex with you and promising dinner date to one lucky winner.”
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“The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace.”
― Jeffrey Zeldman

tags: business, marketing, socialmedia, twitter, web2-0

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“Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.”
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tags: code, design, webdesign

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“People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of priorities drives their use of time and it can shift away from the ordinary work that’s easy to justify, in favor of the more ethereal, deeper things that are harder to justify. They protect their time from trivia and idiocy; these people are time rich. They provide themselves with a surplus of time. They might seem to idle, or relax more often than the rest, but that just might be a sign of their mastery, not their incompetence.”
― Scott Berkun, Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds

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“Content precedes design. Design in advance of content is not design, it’s decoration.”
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