Acknowledgments

Not a lot of technical books reach a second edition! I was overjoyed to hear that the wonderful folks at Apress wanted to keep the “Foundation Website Creation” train running! Thank you to Ben Renow-Clarke, Matthew Moodie, and Debra Kelly for ushering me through the process for a second round. Thanks to Heather Wallace for all of her excellent and thoughtful feedback in editing this book. Thanks to Tom Barker for seemingly seamlessly filling in all of the gaps in my knowledge and really kicking this edition up a notch. You’re a fantastic writer Tom. Thank you Patrick Meader for dotting our i’s and crossing our t’s. Your feedback was extremely valuable.

Thanks to my co-workers at Harvest, every single one of whom has taught me a lot during my tenure there. I’m honored to get to work with such a fantastic group of people.

Thanks to my wonderful wife, Rachel, for giving me the time and support to write again, and to my kids, Reilly, Parker, and Serenity, for once again keeping the noise level to a dull roar (some of the time). Thanks also to my parents: my mom, Cynthia, for the writing genes, and my father, Rick, for that “get it done” attitude. I’m not sure which was used more on this project.

Jonathan Lane

I want to thank my amazing wife, Lynn, and our beautiful children, Lukas and Paloma, for their patience andunderstanding while I would write every night until late in the night.

I want to thank Ben Renow-Clarke for thinking of me for this great project. I want to thank Matthew Moodie and Debra Kelly and the rest of the team at Apress for their guidance and direction. And I want to thank Jonathan Lane for being an incredible collaborator.

I want to thank my team at Comcast, every one of you is amazing and I am made better by being a part of such an incredible team.

Tom Barker

To the memory of my teacher, neighbor, mentor, and friend Lester M. Henderson, who taught me that most any problem can be solved with a pencil, a sheet of blank paper, and plenty of determination.

Joseph R. Lewis

First of all, I’d like to acknowledge the web standards giants who came before me, such as Eric Meyer, Molly Holzschlag, Peter-Paul Koch, Jeffrey Zeldman, and others too numerous to mention, without whom I’d have no shoulders to stand on. I hope my contributions to this book have added some real value to the work they produced before me.

I also want to thank all the people who worked with me on this book: my coauthors and technical reviewers, Jonathan Lane, Joe Lewis, and Tom Barker, for their very astute observations and suggestions while I was drafting my contributions; and the staff at Apress/friends of ED.

Thanks also to the wonderful people with whom I work on website projects every day—the staff of Digital Eskimo in Sydney, Australia, for allowing me to take the time off I needed to focus on this work. Even more important, thanks for providing a really great working environment where I can feel like I’m doing the things I want to do instead of the things I need to do to earn a living.

I would also like to thank my girlfriend, Sara Hames, the writer. Not only does she deserve thanks for helping proofread all of my work before the copy editor saw any of it and for not being upset with me in spite of getting published before her, but also for her immense support and encouragement in many more important ways than words can ever describe.

Finally, I’d like to thank my family for their support years before I knew I’d ever write a book: my brother, Shir, for being the single most resilient, methodical, and authentic person I know; my mom, Rina, for teaching my brother and I how to be the stalwart people we are (whether we make the choices she’d prefer we make or not); and my father, without whose inspiration, insight, and guidance I may never have found the path that led me to where I want to be today.

Meitar Moscovitz