About the Authors

Joseph Lowery's books about the web and web-building tools are international bestsellers, having sold more than 400,000 copies worldwide in 10 different languages. He is the author of Design and Deploy Web Sites with Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Contribute 3 (Macromedia Press). Joseph also wrote the recently published CSS Hacks and Filters as well as the Dreamweaver Bible and Fireworks Bible series (Wiley). In addition to co-authoring Dreamweaver MX 2004 Web Application Recipes with Eric Ott, he wrote Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips with Angela Buraglia. Joseph has presented at Seybold in both Boston and San Francisco, Macromedia conferences in the U.S. and Europe, ThunderLizard's Web World, and KW Media Group's Mac Design Conference. He is currently the Director of Marketing for WebAssist.

Eric Ott has more than 10 years of experience in the Web industry. His position at Macromedia as the product manager for Dreamweaver enabled him to define the direction of this highly regarded Web-development platform from its early days. His knowledge and experience in Web design and development have given him strong insight into ways to achieve success on the Web. Eric is currently the President at WebAssist where he leads an amazing team of industry leaders including Joseph Lowery, Ray Borduin, Lisa Lopuck, Michael Lekse, Hieu Bui, and Danilo Celic. His passion is innovations that improve the user experience and help people to achieve their goals in life.