About the book

• Title: HTML & CSS: The Good Parts
• Tagline: Better Ways to Build Websites that Work
• Author: Ben Henick
• Editor: Simon St. Laurent
• Publisher: O’Reilly Media
• Language: English
• Target audience: website designers and developers with at least two years of experience (but see Ideal reader…)
• Formats: trade paperback, PDF, e-book, Kindle, Safari Books Online
• Print ISBNs:
  • 0596157606
  • 978-0596157609
• Pagecount: 352 pp.
• Retail price: 34.99 USD
• Retail Availability Date: 1 March 2010
• Front cover subject: Ringtailed cat, Bassaricus astutus

About the author

• Working in new media since: September 1995
• Core skillsets: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, image post-production, user experience design, art direction, copywriting
• Operating system experience: Windows since 1987, MacOS/OS X since 1992, Unix-based since 1995 (all at user level); currently the owner of OS X 10.5, Windows Vista, and Windows XP SP3 systems
• Strongest server scripting language: PHP
• Current availability:

  Ben Henick’s availability for engagements related to Web development.

  Engagement type	Dates available
  Freelance sitebuilding and consulting	Now
  Full-time employment	Now
  Articles and blogging	Now
  Books	January 2011 for Q311 release (see About another book)
  Speaking/events	Open

• Current residence: Lawrence, Kansas (but enthusiastic about the prospect of relocation)
• Hometown: Portland, Oregon
• Languages: English (native), Mexican Spanish (functional but deteriorating), Russian (moribund)
• Outside interests: literature, history, film & television, computer gaming (turn-based and realtime strategy), music, public policy

About O’Reilly Media

For 20 years, O’Reilly Media has been well-known as one of the world’s best imprints for technical titles in English, particularly with respect to Web and OSS/Unix-based systems.

O’Reilly also publishes translations of its catalog into a number of other languages, and in rare cases will contract the sole English language rights for outstanding titles originally written in another languages (such as Fonts & Encodings).

In addition to publishing books O’Reilly stages a number of popular conferences, including the Web 2.0 Expo, RailsConf, and the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON).

A brief note about pronouns and opinions

Where first-person pronouns are used in the book and on this site, they refer to Ben Henick (i.e., me!), except in cases of quotation, and where another author is explicitly named in context.

The opinions stated in the book and on this site are not necessarily those of O’Reilly Media, nor of any person or organization apart from the authors of those opinions.