HTML, XHTML & CSS

I’d like to thank my girlfriend, Dr. Alison Marr, for generally putting up with
me and giving me time and space to work on titles like this. I’d like note that
according to my calculations, Alison is approximately 15 times smarter than I
am but somehow still allows me to pretend that I’m right all the time. I know
she has tried to explain magic graphs at least a dozen times to me but I still
don’t get it — evidently it’s not about warlocks and magical fairies. Special
thanks to Ida F. Orengo, M.D. and the rest of the staff from the Baylor College
of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Without all of you, there is a decent chance I
wouldn’t even be alive now.
Thanks to Ed Tittel for allowing me to sit in again and handle even more
responsibility with this latest edition. This title has been one of the biggest
accomplishments in my life and has opened up incredible opportunities to
me and I thank you sincerely. To Slade Deliberto, it seems like only yesterday
you taught me how to design my fi rst Web site. Technology and software
changes over time, but a lot of what I’ve accomplished so far professionally
goes all the way back to your initial design and Photoshop lessons more than
twelve years ago.
Big thanks to my boss and mentor Russell Wilson, you’ve always supported
and believed in me and without a doubt have made me a better designer and
a better person. I don’t say it as much as I should, I owe you big time and I
appreciate everything you have done for me — there, you have it in writing.
To CSS master Eric Meyer, thanks for agreeing to write the Foreword to this
book. I’ve learned a lot from your volume of work over the years and having
my name noted on a book with yours is a huge honor. I’d also like to dedicate
this book in memory of my friend Zach Beatty who was tragically killed by a
drunk driver in 1997. Please don’t drink and drive, you might kill someone a
lot cooler than you.
Jeff Noble