About this site

Online since May 1995, Jeffrey Zeldman Presents is the personal site of designer, writer, and publisher Jeffrey Zeldman. “Jeffrey Zeldman Presents the Daily Report” is one of the oldest continuously published personal sites and a registered periodical: ISSN No. 1534-0309.

About Jeffrey Zeldman

DUBBED KING of Web Standards by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman publishes A List Apart “for people who make websites,” a leading journal of web design thought since 1998, and founded and is executive creative director of Happy Cogâ„¢, a design agency with studios in New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. He has written two books, notably the foundational web standards text, Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition with Ethan Marcotte.

Jeffrey co-founded the multi-city web design conference An Event Apart with Eric Meyer, and co-founded and publishes A Book Apart, brief books for people who make websites with Mandy Brown and Jason Santa Maria. He co-hosts The Big Web Show (.net Magazine Video Podcast of the Year 2010) with Dan Benjamin, and is a faculty member on the MFA, Interaction Design program at School of Visual Arts. Jeffrey blogs at zeldman.com (since 1995) and tweets at @zeldman.

His speaking schedule is available for your perusal.

Press Photo

PRESS PHOTO may be freely used but must be credited to the photographer, Tony Quartarolo.

Selected External Links

Pardon My Archives

Here you’ll find ancient zeldman.com content in its original format.

The Ad Graveyard

Real ads that almost ran. 1995–1998.

Pardon My Icons

Unusual icons for your desktop or website. 1995–1998.

If the Great Movies Had Been Websites

What if Orson Welles had kept a web diary? 1999.

Fifteen Minutes

Interviews with movie stars and web designers, 1996–1999, in original cheesy format.

Wallpaper

Dress that desktop for success. (1997?)

Waterbox

For your listening pleasure, music by Jeffrey Zeldman.

Gifplex

Early multimedia experiment. 1995.

Lawrence Welk, Postmodernist

We come to praise him. 1995.

Letter from Istanbul

Rocking the cradle of civilization. An unfinished travelogue. 1998.

Linker’s Delight

Obsolete banners.

Mr Jenkins’s Last Martini (removed)

The web’s first alcoholic haiku contest.

Ask Dr Web 1995–1998 (removed)

A complete guide to web design, 90s-style.

Web Design Bookmarklets

FOR YOUR PLEASURE. To test, click any link. To install, drag to your browser’s Favorites or Bookmarks bar.

Resize 800

Moves your browser to the left (allowing room for tool bars such as DragThing), resizes it to 800px wide by xx high, where xx is the height of your monitor minus space at the bottom for your Dock or Task Bar.

Resize 1024

Same as above, but makes your browser window 1024px wide.

Validate

Test your page for markup errors.

Credits

ZELDMAN.COM is powered by WordPress (why?), hosted by Happy Cog Hosting, and produced in New York City, USA.

Written, designed, and coded by L. Jeffrey Zeldman. (Contact.)

WordPress implementation by Noel Jackson.

Rotation script in homepage footer by Mark Huot.

Microformats kibbitzing by Tantek Çelik. (Try viewing page in Firefox with Operator plug-in installed.)