Web Directions

Aaron Gustafson & Andy Clarke — Transcendent Design with Javascript and CSS

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• By:jessie
• January 19, 2008
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A pre­sen­ta­tion given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 7, 2007.

• MP3 of presentation
• Presentation slides
• Session descrip­tion
• About Andy Clarke
• About Aaron Gustafson

Session descrip­tion

Traditionally, CSS has been the domain of design­ers while JavaScript was for pro­gram­mers, but these tech­nolo­gies can and should work together to improve your vis­i­tors’ expe­ri­ences. After all, you can do amaz­ing things with CSS, but when you start to use CSS in con­cert with DOM Scripting, there’s almost no limit to what you can achieve.

MOD-​​ern web designer Andy Clarke and DOM/​Ajax devel­oper Aaron Gustafson will take your CSS skills and super­charge them with JavaScript magic, explor­ing how you can make CSS and JavaScript work together to make beau­ti­ful (and func­tional) results.

About Andy Clarke

Andy Clarke is a sought-​​after speaker, designer and con­sul­tant focus­ing on cre­ative, acces­si­ble web devel­op­ment. Andy is pas­sion­ate about design and pas­sion­ate about web stan­dards, often bridg­ing the gap between design and code. He reg­u­larly trains design­ers and devel­op­ers in the cre­ative appli­ca­tions of web stan­dards and writes about aspects of design and pop­u­lar cul­ture on his per­sonal web site, And All That Malarkey.

About Aaron Gustafson

After get­ting hooked on the web in 1996 and spend­ing sev­eral years push­ing pix­els and bits for the likes of IBM and Konica Minolta, Aaron Gustafson decided to focus full-​​time on his own web con­sul­tancy, Easy! Designs LLC. Aaron is a mem­ber of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and the Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS). He also serves as Technical Editor for A List Apart, is a con­tribut­ing writer for Digital Web Magazine, and is quickly build­ing a library of writ­ing and edit­ing cred­its in meat­space. He has graced the stage at numer­ous con­fer­ences includ­ing An Event Apart, COMDEX, SXSW, and The Ajax Experience and is fre­quently called on to pro­vide web stan­dards train­ing in both the pub­lic and pri­vate sector.

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