References/Acknowledgements
I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to teach. I am primarily a designer/producer – a front-end person, and a short teaching gig dropped in my lap. Then, I never left, just pestered the college program coordinator with my skills, drive, and enthusiasm, and have been very lucky to get to teach several classes. Beginning web authoring is one of my favorites, since we get to cover many aspects of web authoring, not just one program or area.
Lots of folks have been a big part of my growth in this industry, and have provided sup- port and laughs when things were (and are) tough in the market. Family, friends, cat, you know who you are.
I wanted to offer special thanks to Gary Nelson, of Highline Community College. He has been a fabulous design advisor, who has a wandering, illustrative way of sharing anecdotes and design concepts that help me think of design as a lifestyle as well as a career aim. He is supportive of every student who aims for excellence and creative insight.
I also want to offer thanks to Bill and Sara Newman, who have been instructors, peers, and friends in my time teaching. They give so much information, support, kudos, and enthusiasm about design/development and the teaching of it, and I have learned tremendously from them.
Finally, every student I get to work with is a gift. I get to share information, open doors, prompt A-Ha moments, duel with challengers, share chocolate, and continuously evolve and (hopefully) better my curriculum and knowledge of the web specialties and tools. Thank you all!
This is an open-source book, built primarily from my own career expertise, industry skills, and teaching experience. I also have checked for clarifying information from the following open-source materials. I take full and complete credit for my own errors. The design and layout is also mine. This book will be a work in progress over the first couple of editions, so I thank everyone for their patience.
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/. Text is available under the Creative Commons At- tribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details.
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Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit or- ganization.
Wikiversity: http://en.wikiversity.org/. Text is available under the Creative Commons At- tribution/Share-Alike License.
Wiktionary: http://www.wiktionary.org/. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
Wikibooks: http://en.wikibooks.org/. Text is available under the Creative Commons At- tribution-ShareAlike License.
W3Schools Web References: http://www.w3schools.com/. This website was used for reference/clarification only, and while examples were useful, any used here were created based on L.J. Bothell's experience after being compared against the standards shared in the W3C schools tutorials.
Dive into HTML5: http://diveintohtml5.org/. This web reference was visited for reference only. Copyright MMIX–MMX Mark Pilgrim
CSS3.Info: http://www.css3.info/. This website was visited for reference only. 2009 WEBFLUX. All Rights Reserved.
I have also referred to some terrific books so that you know where to look for current and relevant information related to the topics in this book. So you know what they are:
Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition; New Riders Press, author Steve Krug, ISBN-10: 0321344758, ISBN-13: 978-0321344755.
The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites, 2nd Edition; Prentice Hall, authors Douglas K. Van Duyne, Jason I. Hong, and James A. Landay, ISBN-10: 0131345559, ISBN-13: 978-0131345553
Eric Meyer Books: http://meyerweb.com/eric/writing.html
Peachpit Press: Visual QuickStart Guide Series (books): http://www.peachpit.com/
Sams Teach Yourself Books, http://www.informit.com/
SitePoint Books: http://products.sitepoint.com/