The Missing Credits

P1.1. About the Author

David Sawyer McFarland is president of Sawyer McFarland Media, Inc., a Web development and training company in Portland, Oregon. He's been building Web sites since 1995, when he designed his first website: an online magazine for communication professionals. He's served as the Webmaster at the University of California at Berkeley and the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center, and he has helped build, design, and program numerous websites for clients including Macworld.com, among others.

In addition to building websites, David is also a writer, trainer, and instructor. He's taught Web design at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, the Center for Electronic Art, the Academy of Art College, and the Art Institute of Portland. He currently teaches in the Multimedia Program at Portland State University. He's written articles about Web design for Practical Web Design, Macworld magazine and CreativePro.com.

David is also the author of CSS: The Missing Manual, and JavaScript: The Missing Manual. He welcomes feedback about this book by email: missing@sawmac.com. (If you're seeking technical help, however, please refer to the sources listed in Appendix A.)

P1.2. About the Creative Team

Peter McKie (editor) is an editor at Missing Manuals. He graduated with a master's degree from Boston University's School of Journalism and lives in New York City, where he researches the history of old houses and, every once in a while, sneaks into abandoned buildings. Email: pmckie@gmail.com.

Adam Zaremba (production editor) recently received his M.A. from the Editorial Institute at Boston University. He lives in Chestnut Hill, Mass., and does, in fact, like green eggs and ham.

Nancy Reinhardt (copy editor) is a freelance copy editor living in the Midwest who enjoys swimming, biking, and history. She is an avid reader and writer of romance novels and is currently shopping her first book. Email: reinhardt8@comcast.net.

Julie Hawks (indexer) is an indexer for the Missing Manual series. Her other life includes photography, tinkering with databases, and enjoying nature. Email: juliehawks@gmail.com.

Murray R. Summers (technical reviewer) is an Adobe Certified Web Site Developer, Dreamweaver Developer, and Community Professional, and has co-authored a book on Dreamweaver templates and contributed chapters to several books on Dreamweaver. His company, Great Web Sights, has been active in web development since 1998. Murray lives in rural Philadelphia with his wife Suzanne. His daughter, Carly, is currently attending Clemson University (go Tigers!).

John C. Bland II (technical reviewer) is the founder of Katapult Media, Inc., which focuses on software and web development using technologies like ColdFusion, Flash, PHP, Java, the .NET Platform, and Objective-C (iPhone OS, Mac OS X, and so on). He is a co-author of ColdFusion Web Application Framework and Flex 4 in Action. An Adobe Community Professional, John continues to contribute to the community that helped mold him into the developer he is today. John blogs regularly on his blog at www.johncblandii.com.

P1.3. Acknowledgements

Many thanks to all those who helped with this book, including Deb Pang Davis, the design mastermind behind ChiaVet.com, and my technical editors, Murray Summers and John Bland, whose critiques have provided a comfortable safety net to protect me from any embarrassing gaffes. Thanks also to my students, who've helped me understand Dreamweaver better and always seem to come up with at least one question that I have no answer for.

Finally, thanks to Peter McKie, whose strong editing hand has helped make my writing more active and accurate; to my wife, Scholle, for being such a strong supporter of my writing and a wonderful partner in my life; my mom and Doug; Mary, David, Marisa, and Tessa; Phyllis and Les; my son, Graham, who has taught me that robots, spaceships, Star Wars, and Legos are much more important than writing books; and to my daughter, Kate, who would have been much happier if I wrote a book about Elmo, Big Bird, and Cookie Monster.

—Dave McFarland