CSS Secrets

Words of thanks

This book would not have been possible without the help and support of a number of fantastic people, to whom I’m deeply grateful. A big, heartfelt thank you goes to:

• All those who supported my work over the years, otherwise I wouldn’t have found myself in the position of writing a book in the first place. To readers of my blog (lea.verou.me), Twitter (twitter.com/leaverou), and elsewhere, and even more to you, dear reader of my first book! To everyone who has used my open source work (github.com/leaverou) and even more to those who contributed.

• All the conference organizers who have invited me for talks and workshops over the years, especially to Damian Wielgosik and Paweł Czerski who first believed in me and invited me to the inaugural Front-Trends conference in 2010. And to Vasilis Vassalos who trusted me to design a web development course for Athens University of Economics and Business back in 2010, as all these experiences taught me a great deal about teaching (and a technical book is basically teaching).

• Everyone in the CSS Working Group who voted to bring me on as an Invited Expert, which has transformed my perspective on web technologies in general and on CSS in particular.

• My editors, Mary Treseler and Meg Foley, who gave me control over the entire process and have been incredibly patient with me when I missed deadlines (which happened more often than I’d care to admit).

• My production editor, Kara Ebrahim, who spent copious amounts of time fixing layout ...