[WebPub] Wed Aug 12th Meeting featuring Ethan Marcotte on Web Standards

[Traganos, Christopher D.]

Hello WWW¹s & MIT-Webpub group,

Hope you are all having a good summer and are gearing up for the fall. We
have a very exciting August ABCD-WWW meeting to announce today:

Date: Wednesday, August 12th @ 3:30 ­ 5:00
Speaker: Ethan Marcotte
³Simple Standards²
Location: Lamont Library
Abstract:
"Simple Standards"
    Even the most complex user interfaces can be implemented with the
simplest foundation: good, clean semantic markup, with dashes of CSS
and JS stirred in as needed. We'll look at a couple sites that have
used this approach, briefly review what's new with CSS3/HTML5, and
discuss issues your own sites might have had when designing with web
standards.

NOTE: MIT and non Harvard ID visitors must contact me at
christopher_traganos at harvard.edu for access to the talk. The security desk
must have your name on our guest list.

Speaker Bio:
Ethan Marcotte is a versatile user experience designer/developer, whose work
demonstrates a passion for the intersection of quality code and compelling
design. Prior to joining Happy Cog, Ethan worked with such clients as New
York Magazine, Harvard University, and the W3C. A former steering committee
member of The Web Standards Project, his work in the standards space has
been covered in several magazines and online publications.

Ethan has acted as a contributing author to Handcrafted CSS (New Riders,
2009), Web Standards Creativity (friends of ED, 2007) and Professional CSS
(Wrox, 2005). He is currently collaborating with Happy Cog founder Jeffrey
Zeldman on the third edition of Designing With Web Standards (New Riders,
forthcoming), the classic title that sits on every savvy designer¹s
bookshelf. Ethan is an experienced technical editor, having edited the first
edition of Bulletproof Web Design, as well as the second edition of
Designing with Web Standards.

Ethan is a contributing author and technical editor at A List Apart
<http://www.alistapart.com/> , ³for people who make websites.² He is also a
popular educator, and has been a featured speaker at An Event Apart, the
SXSW Interactive festival, Harvard University, and AIGA¹s In Control
conference. He spends entirely too much time online, and would like to be an
unstoppable robot ninja <http://unstoppablerobotninja.com/>  when he grows
up. Beep.

See you there!

-- 
Chris Traganos
Web Developer
Harvard University
christopher_traganos at harvard.edu


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