Zeldman is the man
If you are active online and you don’t know who Jeffery Zeldman is then you must have been living under a rock since the mid 1990’s. In case you don’t know who he is here is a quote from his about page.
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.
If you are online you need to read his blog. It predates all of the so called pro bloggers by years and still manages to be a great read. Zeldman is passionate about web standards and he is right to be so. Check out his blog at zeldman.com. He’s one of a kind.
