About The Authors

Anders Andersen

Anders loves to build stuff on the web. He specialises in building responsive and mobile web solutions and works as a consultant for Valtech¹ in Stockholm. Twitter: @andmag².

Eric Portis

Eric grew up on the outskirts of Urbana, Illinois, studied printmaking and drawing in St. Louis³, and has been in sunny Denver, Colorado working for a little print shop⁴ since 2006. Twitter: @etportis⁵. Google Profile: https://plus.google.com/+EricPortis/posts⁶.

Estelle Weyl

Estelle Weyl is an internationally published author, speaker, trainer, and consultant. Estelle started her professional life running public health programs, but decided instead to be a web standardista. A UI Engineer, she has consulted for Kodakgallery, Samsung, SurveyMonkey, Yahoo! and Apple, among others. Estelle shares esoteric tidbits learned while programming CSS, JavaScript and HTML, provides tutorials and detailed grids of CSS3 and HTML5 browser support at Standardista⁷. Her tutorials and workshops are available on Github⁸. She is the author of Mobile HTML5⁹, What’s New in CSS3¹⁰, HTML5: The Definitive Guide¹¹ and HTML5 and CSS3 for the Real World¹². When not coding, she works in construction, de-hippifying her 1960’s throwback abode. Twitter: @estellevw¹³.

Gavyn McKenzie

Gavyn McKenzie¹⁴ likes downhill skateboarding, pondering semantics, painting with CSS and fine gastronomy. He is currently employed as a front-end web developer at Etch Apps¹⁵ and dabbles in freelance work for interesting clients. Twitter: @gavynmckenzie¹⁶.

Ilya Pukhalski

Web designer/web developer with 8 years of experience in different areas of the web starting from UX and ending with server-side programming. JavaScript and web standards lover, speaker. Currently specializes on cross-platform and mobile front-end development (AWD, RWD, Web, hybrid and native mobile applications). Twitter: @pukhalski¹⁷.

Rachel McCollin

Rachel is a freelance web designer and writer specialising in mobile and responsive WordPress development. She’s the author of Mobile WordPress Development, a comprehensive guide to making yourWordPress site mobile-friendly, published by Packt, and also author of WordPress Pushing the Limits, published by Wiley. Twitter: @rachelmccollin¹⁸.

Shawn Jansepar

Shawn is a software engineer and dev lead on the Product Team at Mobify. He loves to hack both on the front-end and back-end, with a heavy focus on user experience. When he isn’t hacking, you likely find him playing hockey/video games, eating donairs, or travelling. Shawn has a BSc in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Follow him on Twitter¹⁹ or Github²⁰.

Stephen Thomas

Stephen specializes in front-end development at Georgia Tech’s Department of Education Technology, where he is helping to build the Open Academic Environment. He is the author of several books on the Internet and networking technology, including an upcoming book on Web-Based Data Visualization available later this year from No Starch Press. You can visit his blog²¹, and find out more on GitHub²² and Speakerdeck²³. Twitter: @stephen_thomas²⁴.

Tim Wright

Tim Wright is the Senior User Experience Designer and Developer at Fresh Tilled Soil²⁵, a UX design agency out of Boston, MA. Tim is a frequent speaker, blogger, article writer, and published author. In fact, he recently wrote a book on JavaScript: Learning JavaScript: A Hands-On Guide to the Fundamentals of Modern JavaScript. You can find more of his writings at CSSKarma²⁶. Twitter: @csskarma²⁷. Google Profile: https://plus.google.com/+TimWright12/²⁸.

Tobias Järlund

Tobias is a front-end and back-end web developer with a passion for web performance, scalability and security. He is the lead developer at Aftonbladet²⁹, where he’s trying to reshape the news industry from within. Twitter: @jarlund³⁰.

Yoav Weiss

Yoav is a Web performance and browser internals specialist, working on responsive design Web performance, image compression and more. He is an RICG³¹ technical lead, a Blink & WebKit contributor and a bass player. You can follow his rants on Twitter³² or have a peek at his latest prototypes on Github³³.

About Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine³⁴ is an online magazine dedicated to web designers and developers worldwide. Its rigorous quality control and thorough editorial work has gathered a devoted community exceeding half a million subscribers, followers and fans. Each and every published article is carefully prepared, edited, reviewed and curated according to the high quality standards set in Smashing Magazine’s own publishing policy³⁵.

Smashing Magazine publishes articles on a daily basis with topics ranging from business, visual design, typography, front-end as well as back-end development, all the way to usability and user experience design. The magazine is—and always has been—a professional and independent online publication neither controlled nor influenced by any third parties, delivering content in the best interest of its readers. These guidelines are continually revised and updated to assure that the quality of the published content is never compromised. Since its emergence back in 2006 Smashing Magazine has proven to be a trustworthy online source.