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Molly Holzschlag has authored over 30 books related to Web design and development, including co-authoring the best selling The Zen of CSS Design. As a steering committee member for the Web Standards Project (WaSP), Molly works with a group of dedicated Web developers and designers to promote W3C recommendations.

Gina Trapani is Editor of Lifehacker.com, one of the leading blogs on the Web. The Wall Street Journal called Lifehacker “geek chic,” TIME magazine listed Lifehacker as one of its 50 Coolest Web sites of 2005 and Forbes named Lifehacker in its “Best of the Web.”

Aaron Gustafson sits on the Advisory Panel for the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW), is a contributing writer and editor for A List Apart and a writer for Digital Web Magazine, and has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences including COMDEX and MacWorld.

Andy Clarke (aka Malarkey) is a freelance designer, writer and creative director who writes the popular design journal, And All That Malarkey. Andy is also the founder of Stuff and Nonsense and is on the Web Standards Awards judging panel.

Andy Budd is Creative Director at Clearleft and an internationally renowned user experience designer and web standards expert. Andy is a regular speaker at major design conferences and author of the best selling book, CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions, in which Andy shares his years of experience in creating attractive, standards compliant websites.

Paul Nielsen is a hands-on database developer, Microsoft SQL Server MVP, author, and trainer specializing in data architecture and Microsoft SQL Server technologies. He is the author of the SQL Server 2005 Bible (Wiley) and the Microsoft SQL Server Development training course available through Total Training.

Peter-Paul Koch is an internationally recognized JavaScript expert and a member of the Web Standards Project DOM Scripting Task Force. His site Quirksmode.org is widely known in the JavaScript community and currently draws about 1,000 unique visitors per day.

Tom Green is a renowned author, speaker, trainer, and professor in the area of New Media. He is an Adobe Community Expert and a Community MX partner who was included with a group of 10 influential Flash designers that Adobe pulled together to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Flash. Tom is the author of 9 books, including Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers (friendsofED).

Dean Takahashi covers technology for the San Jose Mercury News and with more than 17 years as a professional journalist, has written for major periodicals such as the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, The Orange County Register, the Dallas Times Herald, and the Red Herring. He has also appeared on both CNN and CNBC.

Michael Dawson is an instructor who teaches students the art and science of writing their own computer games. Mike is also the author of Beginning C++ Game Programming and Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner.

Jason Chen writes for Gizmodo, a major technology weblog, where he shares his views on gadget news, and performs in-depth reviews and analysis of the newest gear. Jason is the co-author of the forthcoming How to Do Everything with Your iPhone (McGraw-Hill).

Adam Pash is a freelance technology writer based in Los Angeles, CA, and a contributor to the hugely popular blog Lifehacker, where he posts daily tips, downloads, and reviews of the best productivity wares on the net. He is also co-author of the forthcoming How to Do Everything with Your iPhone (McGraw-Hill).