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New Riders
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New Riders is an imprint of Peachpit, a division of Pearson Education

Copyright 2006 by Dan Cederholm

Credits

Editor: Rebecca Gulick

Production Coordinator: Andrei Pasternak

Copy Editor: Liz Welch

Technical Editor: Ethan Marcotte

Compositor: Maureen Forys, Happenstance Type-O-Rama

Illustrator: Stephen Dampier

Indexer: Ron Straus

Cover design: Mimi Heft, Charlene Will, and Dan Cederholm

Interior design: Charlene Will and Maureen Forys

Notice of Rights

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise , without the prior written permission of the publisher. For information on getting permission for reprints and excerpts, contact permissions@peachpit.com.

Notice of Liability

The information in this book is distributed on an "As Is" basis, without warranty. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of the book, neither the author nor Peachpit shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the instructions contained in this book or by the computer software and hardware products described in it.

Trademarks

Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book, and Peachpit was aware of a trademark claim, the designations appear as requested by the owner of the trademark. All other product names and services identified throughout this book are used in editorial fashion only and for the benefit of such companies with no intention of infringement of the trademark. No such use, or the use of any trade name , is intended to convey endorsement or other affiliation with this book.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

To Michael Nolan for connecting me with New Riders as well as helping me solidify the concept of the book early on. Similarly, big thanks also go to Marjorie Baer for her guidance at the beginning of the project.

To Dave Roberts for stealing second.

To everyone at Peachpit who was involved in this book in some way, but especially Rebecca Gulick for steering the entire project, making the entire process as smooth as possible.

To Ethan Marcotte for being an excellent technical editor. It was great to work with Ethan on this, and his comments and insight were invaluable.

To my colleagues who continue to provide inspiration, sharing their techniques and knowledge, on and off line. This book wouldn't have been written if it weren't for the previous work of the following (as well as many more who I'm forgetting to mention here): John Allsopp, Dan Benjamin, Holly Bergevin, Douglas Bowman, Andy Budd, Tantek elik, Joe Clark, Andy Clarke, Mike Davidson, Todd Dominey, Jason Fried, John Gallant, Patrick Griffiths, Andrei Herasimchuk, Jon Hicks , Molly Holzschlag, Shaun Inman, Ryan Irelan, Roger Johansson, Jeremy Keith, Ian Lloyd, Drew McLellan, Eric Meyer, Cameron Moll, Matt Mullenweg, Mark Newhouse, Dunstan Orchard, Veerle Pieters, D. Keith Robinson, Richard Rutter, Jason Santa Maria, Christopher Schmitt, Dave Shea, Ryan Sims, Greg Storey, Jeffrey Veen, Josh Williams, and Jeffrey Zeldman.

Special thanks to Jon Hicks for creating the original 3D CSS Box Model Illustration (www.hicksdesign.co.uk/3dboxmodel/), which inspired those found in the book.

To the readers and clients of SimpleBits, notably, Dan Benshoff and ESPN.com, Evan Williams, Noah Glass, and Rob Roesler.

To the Greater Beverly Adult Dodgeball league, for providing a necessary escape every Tuesday evening at 7:30.

To my always amazingly supportive parents, my brother Matt and his family, and the rest of my extended family and friends .

And as always, to my partner in crime, Kerry, for being the rock star wife that she is.

Lastly, thank you for reading.