About John Allsopp, Author

John Allsopp had been working with, on, for, and against the web since the first half of the 1990s. He’s a co-founder of westciv.com and developer of Style Master, the web world’s most venerable cross-platform CSS development tool. He’s also the author of numerous courses, tutorials, tools, resources, and articles for web designers and developers, including the influential A List Apart article “The Dao of Web Design.”

John is the co-founder of the web conference series Web Directions (webdirections.org), which is held in Australia, North America, Japan, and the UK. Most recently of all, John co-founded Scroll Magazine (scrollmagazine.com), a print, PDF, and online magazine that explores the big ideas around designing and developing for the web. He is the co-chair of a new W3C Incubator Group that focuses on educating the next generation of web professionals (www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/owea).

John is the father of two darling daughters, who are the light of his life, with another child on the way. In his copious spare time, he does as much mountain biking, surfing, and snowboarding as all these other activities allow, which is to say, very little.

John’s personal site is johnfallsopp.com. Follow him on Twitter, @johnallsopp.

About Brian Suda, Technical Editor

Brian Suda is an informatician currently residing in Reykjavík, Iceland. He has spent a good portion of each day connected to Internet after discovering it back in the mid-1990s. Most recently, he has been focusing more on the mobile space and future predictions: how smaller devices will augment our every day life and what that means to the way we live, work and are entertained.

Brian is the author of Using Microformats (O’Reilly, 2006) and a stack of articles about microformats, the mobile web, and informatics. He was the technical reviewer for John’s previous book, Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 (friends of ED, 2007).

His own little patch of Internet can be found at suda.co.uk, where many of his past projects and crazy ideas reside.

About Sharon Lee, Illustrator

The seed was sown when Sharon Lee found a box of recipe cards in an op-shop. Ham in aspic. Prawn stuffed apples. Fricassee of rabbit. Oh, the culinary delights!

Inspired, she created a food-themed website and named it after one of the recipes. Her criteria for design success? When it made her laugh. Word of the website spread, making others laugh too. Prospective clients, even.

“Are you based in Sydney? Are you available for work?”

And so, in 2001, Richapplefool the business began.

Over the years, she developed her philosophy and practice to create more effective work, fusing branding with user experience architecture and design so clients could speak with true conviction. She calls the result Human Experience Design.

The Developing with Web Standards Site

Developing with Web Standards has its own community online at devwws.com. Here you can find more resources and addenda, contact John, and much more. Come by and say hi.