About the Author

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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: . (If you’re seeking technical help, however, please refer to the sources listed in Appendix A.)

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