Jeffrey Zeldman
Jeffrey Zeldman is an American entrepreneur and web designer who is renowned for his work on the development of the World Wide Web alongside Tim Berners Lee. Originally from Queens, New York Zeldman was born in 1955, he has created a number of businesses and organisations throughout his career, he is the co-founder of A List Apart and The Web Standards Project in addition to creating the design conference An Event Apart where he is a regular speaker of web design and web development, he has also created a number of design studios such as studios.zeldman and Happy Cog studios.[2]
In addition creating numerous organisations and businesses throughout his life, Jeffrey Zeldman is also widely recognised for his work as an author, Zeldman has published a number of books but his most notable publication is Designing with Web Standards which is considered as a Bible for web development.[1] When the World Wide Web was first created the technology was still new and still needed development to get to the point we are at today, back then some web pages could only be displayed on certain browsers which is why Zeldman created the book Designing with Web Standards, this allowed web pages to be accessible across multiple browsers and laid the foundations for web development through the use of HTML and CSS.[2]
I have included an image of Designing with Web Standards below in addition to the very first Space Jam website that was developed by Jeffrey Zeldman himself.
References & Sources
- LinkedIn. 2021. Jeffrey Zeldman: 20 years of Web Design and Community Online Class | LinkedIn Learning, formerly Lynda.com. Available at: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/jeffrey-zeldman-20-years-of-web-design-and-community.
- Wikipedia. 2021. Jeffrey Zeldman – Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Zeldman.