David Sawyer McFarland - Dreamweaver CS5.5: The Missing Manual

David Sawyer McFarland is president of Sawyer McFarland Media, Inc., a web development and training company in Portland, Oregon. Hes been building websites since 1995, when he designed an online magazine for communication professionals. Hes served as the webmaster at the University of California at Berkeley and the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center, and hes helped build, design, and program numerous sites for clients that include Macworld.com, among others.

In addition to building websites, David is a writer, trainer, and instructor. Hes taught web design at the UC Berkeleys Graduate School of Journalism, the Center for Electronic Art, the Academy of Art College, and the Art Institute of Portland. He currently teaches in the Multimedia Program at Portland State University. Hes written articles about web design for Practical Web Design, Macworld, and CreativePro.com.

David is also the author of CSS: The Missing Manual and JavaScript: The Missing Manual.

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Peter McKie (editor) graduated with a masters degree from Boston Universitys School of Journalism and lives in New York City, where he researches the history of old houses and, every once in a while, sneaks into abandoned buildings. Email: .

Adam Zaremba (production editor) has a masters degree from the Editorial Institute at Boston University. He lives in Chestnut Hill, Mass., and has learned that there are three things never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.

Ron Strauss (indexer) specializes in the indexing of information technology publications of all kinds. Ron is also an accomplished classical violist and lives in northern California with his wife and fellow indexer, Annie, and his miniature pinscher, Kanga. Email: .

Stacie Arellano (proofreader) is a freelance proofreader/copy editor from Wisconsin with a background in marketing and web development. When she isnt editing, she is working on her fantasy adventure graphic novel at TributeWaters.com. Email: .

Murray R. Summers (technical reviewer) is an Adobe Certified Dreamweaver Developer and Community Professional. He has co-authored and contributed chapters to several books on Dreamweaver, been the technical editor for the last six editions of the Dreamweaver Missing Manual, and presented at multiple national conferences. His company, Great Web Sights, has been active in web development since 1998. Murray lives in southern Delaware with his wife Suzanne. One daughter attends Clemson University, and the other is a skilled web developer ( carolinawebcreations.biz ). His two sons live and work in Virginia Beach.

John C. Bland II (technical reviewer) is the founder of Katapult Media Inc., which focuses on desktop, mobile, and web development. Through Katapult, John works diligently on FastKast (http://fastkast.com), which powers numerous low- to high-profile media players. He is a coauthor of ColdFusion Web Application Framework for ColdFusion 9 and Flex 4 in Action. As an Adobe Community Professional, John continues give back to the community that helped mold him into the developer he is today. John blogs regularly at www.johncblandii.com.