Eric Meyer
CSS Expert and Consultant
Eric Meyer is an internationally recognized expert in CSS and the use of web standards, and has been working on the web since 1993. In that time, he has written a wide variety of tutorials, articles, and books devoted to helping designers and developers improve their web skills. He is the best-selling CSS author and best-recognized CSS authority in the world. His seven books have been translated into six languages and have sold in the hundreds of thousands.
In addition to mastering standards created by others, Eric co-authored the XFN online relationship standard, which was recently written up in Fast Company magazine. Eric speaks frequently at conferences such as @Media, Web Directions, Web Design World, User Interface, SXSW Interactive, the IW#C2 WWW series, and Search Engine Strategies.
Eric is the principal of Complex Spiral Consulting, which focuses on helping clients use standards to cut costs and improve user experience. In that capacity, he has assisted organizations from universities to government laboratories to Fortune 500 companies; some recent and notable clients include America On-Line, Apple Computer, Macromedia, Sandia National Laboratory, and Wells Fargo Bank.
As a strategic partner of (and special consultant to) Happy Cog, Eric has worked with Jeffrey Zeldman to ensure that our XHTML and CSS standards and practices are of the highest caliber. He also co-founded and co-directs the Event Apart web design conference with Jeffrey.
Eric publishes observations about web standards, culture, and anything else that seems worth his time at his site, meyerweb.com.
Selected Articles and Publications
- CSS: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition
- An authoritative look at the inner workings of CSS; O'Reilly & Associates, 2006 (first edition, 2000)
- CSS Web Site Design
- An introduction to using CSS for web design; Peachpit, 2006
- More Eric Meyer on CSS
- Ten more CSS projects, including a CSS Zen Garden entry; New Riders, 2004
- Eric Meyer on CSS
- Twelve hands-on, step-by-step CSS design projects; New Riders, 2002
- Images, Tables, and Mysterious Gaps
- A detailed breakdown of a common design headache; Netscape Devedge, 2002
- Going to Print
- The article that launched a thousand print style sheets; A List Apart, 2002
- Cascading Style Sheets 2.0 Programmer's Reference
- A no-frills summary of CSS properties and features; Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 2001
- CSS Test Suite
- The first official test suite for a W3C specification; W3C, 1999
- Introduction to HTML
- One of the first HTML tutorials, since read by over a million people; 1995
Personal site: meyerweb.com