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Jeffrey Zeldman

American Businessman

Born: Jan 12, 1955

About Design Every Will Work You

Related authors: Bill Gates Henry Ford Jim Rohn Les Brown Peter Drucker Stephen Covey Steve Jobs Warren Buffett

I'd like to be able to design as easily as if I was using Photoshop. I'd like to be able to create a multicolumn layout and control source order without having to do advanced mathematics or hire Eric Meyer or Dan Cederholm to figure out the CSS, because I can't. Jeffrey Zeldman

Validation is easy - you run your site through a validator, and it's either valid or it isn't. The rest of the stuff, such as whether my logo or the biggest headline should be the h1 in my HTML, isn't so easy and is subject to interpretation. Jeffrey Zeldman

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At one point, I was blogging prodigiously, in the late '90s; and I was getting, like, millions of pages because I was, like, one of the only people writing about web design, and I was always writing about web design. Jeffrey Zeldman

People Writing Design Late Web About Only Point Like Because Always Blogging Getting Pages Millions

There could be no filmmaking without industrywide agreement on frame rates, lenses, and audio recording equipment. Jeffrey Zeldman

Recording Frame Rates Could Without Equipment Audio Lenses Agreement Filmmaking

I spent all day in front of a digital screen, but I'm about to curl up with a book. Jeffrey Zeldman

Day Book Digital Spent All Day About Up Curl Front Screen

We at The Web Standards Project turned everything on its head. We said browsers should support the same standards instead of competing to invent new tags and scripting languages. We said designers, developers, and content folks should create one site that was accessible to everyone. Jeffrey Zeldman

Invent Everyone Everything Project Folks Web Head Developers Instead Support New Content Said Accessible Site Same Scripting Turned Create Should Languages Standards Designers Competing

The code core of the 2001 browser upgrade campaign was the first instance of capability detection in place of browser detection. Jeffrey Zeldman

First Detection Browser Instance Campaign Upgrade Place Capability Code Core

Somebody has to pay our editors, writers, journalists, designers, developers, and all the other specialists whose passion and tears go into every chunk of worthwhile web content. Jeffrey Zeldman

Passion Tears Somebody Pay Every Other Our Chunk Worthwhile Web Writers Developers Journalists Content Editors Go Specialists Whose Designers

To my way of thinking, passive management of file assets is okay for screwing around with iPads, where we're mainly watching TV on Netflix or obsessive-compulsively checking the popularity of our Instagram uploads. Jeffrey Zeldman

Dropbox, with its emphasis on good old-fashioned hierarchies, is superb at automatically saving one original of each photo I take, whether shot with a phone or a fancy camera. No loops, no duplicates, no confusion. Jeffrey Zeldman

Good Phone Confusion Saving Photo Hierarchies Superb Take Emphasis Loops Camera Automatically Whether Fancy Shot Old-Fashioned Original Each

I'm not against Flash, and I love the work that people such as Joshua Davis do. Jeffrey Zeldman

Work Love People Davis Flash Against

Even if it's not always the best markup, what are Facebook and Twitter? They're web standards with some scripts. They may not validate, but they're still CSS layouts and simple markup, and that's great! Jeffrey Zeldman

Best Great Facebook Simple Twitter Validate Some Web Facebook And Twitter Always Still May Scripts Standards Even

When you die, nobody pays your hosting company, and your work disappears. Like that. Jeffrey Zeldman

Work You Hosting Disappears Nobody Like Die Your Pays Company

Now, not every blog post or 'Top 10 Ways to Make Money on the Internet' piece deserves to live forever. But there's gold among the dross, and there are web publications that we would do well to preserve for historical purposes. Jeffrey Zeldman

Thanks to budget shortfalls and format wars, our traditional media, literature, and arts are perishing faster than ever before. Nothing conceived by the human mind, except Heaven and nuclear winter, is eternal. Jeffrey Zeldman

Winter Mind Before Thanks Nothing Faster Our Except Budget Conceived Traditional Than Heaven Human Arts Format Literature Eternal Human Mind Wars Media Ever Nuclear

The less concerned with aesthetics and usability these friends and family members are, the more easily they navigate sites and applications I can't make head nor hair of. Like the ex-girlfriend who mastered Ebay. Jeffrey Zeldman

For my daughter I would suffer through a thousand divorces, a million uncomfortable phone calls, a trillion emotionally fraught text messages. Jeffrey Zeldman

Phone Daughter Phone Calls Thousand Would Fraught Trillion Through Uncomfortable Emotionally Divorces Messages Calls Text Suffer Million

I worry about every newspaper. I worry about the financial undertaking, and I worry that somehow the loss of the sale of the paper version will affect their ability to have journalists and editors and producers. We really need those. Jeffrey Zeldman

I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I'd fail at all these different professions. Jeffrey Zeldman

Art Director Musician Fail Different Frustrated Novelist Professions Right Designer

I was a journalist, but I was starving. And I've written fiction, but I couldn't get a publisher. So, I was basically a very frustrated creative person working in advertising, and even there, I have a great idea that client won't buy it. Jeffrey Zeldman

In 1995, I made a website, and half the web came to see it, and I thought, 'Man, that's it, that's what I want to do.' Jeffrey Zeldman

Website Man Thought Made Half See Web Came Want

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