David Sawyer McFarland - Dreamweaver CS5: The Missing Manual

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David Sawyer McFarland is president of Sawyer McFarland Media, Inc., a Web development and training company in Portland, Oregon. He's been building Web sites since 1995, when he designed his first website: an online magazine for communication professionals. He's served as the Webmaster at the University of California at Berkeley and the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center, and he has helped build, design, and program numerous websites for clients including Macworld.com, among others.

In addition to building websites, David is also a writer, trainer, and instructor. He's taught Web design at the UC Berkeley 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. He's written articles about Web design for Practical Web Design, Macworld magazine and CreativePro.com.

David is also the author of CSS: The Missing Manual, and JavaScript: The Missing Manual. He welcomes feedback about this book by email: .)

Peter McKie (editor) is an editor at Missing Manuals. He graduated with a master's degree from Boston University's 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) recently received his M.A. from the Editorial Institute at Boston University. He lives in Chestnut Hill, Mass., and does, in fact, like green eggs and ham.

Nancy Reinhardt (copy editor) is a freelance copy editor living in the Midwest who enjoys swimming, biking, and history. She is an avid reader and writer of romance novels and is currently shopping her first book. Email: .

Julie Hawks (indexer) is an indexer for the Missing Manual series. Her other life includes photography, tinkering with databases, and enjoying nature. Email: .

Murray R. Summers (technical reviewer) is an Adobe Certified Web Site Developer, Dreamweaver Developer, and Community Professional, and has co-authored a book on Dreamweaver templates and contributed chapters to several books on Dreamweaver. His company, Great Web Sights, has been active in web development since 1998. Murray lives in rural Philadelphia with his wife Suzanne. His daughter, Carly, is currently attending Clemson University (go Tigers!).

John C. Bland II (technical reviewer) is the founder of Katapult Media, Inc., which focuses on software and web development using technologies like ColdFusion, Flash, PHP, Java, the .NET Platform, and Objective-C (iPhone OS, Mac OS X, and so on). He is a co-author of ColdFusion Web Application Framework and Flex 4 in Action. An Adobe Community Professional, John continues to contribute to the community that helped mold him into the developer he is today. John blogs regularly on his blog at www.johncblandii.com.