Interviews
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
Eric Meyer
- meyerweb.com
The world-renowned CSS expert Eric Meyer talks about how he got into CSS and the benefits of print stylesheets.
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Summary of the interview
- Eric graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 1992
- Marked up his first document in 1993
- Became web master at Case Western Reserve University in 1994
- Went to 2nd International World Wide Web Conference in Chicago
- After conference, he knew that exciting things were happening with the web
- Wanted to go to the 5th WWW Conference, so he wrote a paper for it which got accepted
- 1996 - Saw his 1st presentation on CSS
- Wrote CSS Support charts at Web Review helped him raise his profile
- Eric suggested writing columns for Web Review, which helped launch his writing career
- Writing books has really launched his speaking career
- Need to write 4-6 books a year to make a living off just writing
- Favorite project over the last two years is A List Apart and An Event Apart
- Advice from Eric: Make sure to get your clients to sign a contract, so there’s no confusion about payment
- CSS tip from Eric: Make sure to validate before you try to bug fix
- CSS tip from Eric: Don’t try to map table design mental models onto CSS as it’s a recipe for heartache
- Eric talks about some of the design and CSS decisions he made with A List Apart
- Print stylesheets make sense for articles on A List Apart, but not for the homepage.
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Friends, what about textual interviews?
Some people around the world can read English but can’t understand sounds from speaker system.
Please, improve accessability!
Hi Maksim,
I appreciate your opinion, and you are indeed correct. In a perfect world, every interview would be transcribed. The trouble is that it’s very expensive to do so. We just can’t afford to do this.
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i just finished reading an article in A List Apart ” Cheaper Over Better: Why web clients settle for less” by Adam Schumacher and let me tell you ,the article is so right on with the situation I am in at the moment. I have potential client that I want so bad. He gave us examples what he wanted for his website, he admitted his current website needs work and he was giving us promises, until we made a proposal and faxed it. It’s been 2 months and when i would call and call and he would give me excuses like I am still considering but…or I need to talk to my partners… Etc…Etc.. anyways, the article really hit home, i really thought it was just me.
Thank You:)
I found “The four-day week challenge” article to be quite interesting. I love challenges and I will try it, but unfortunately I have a 40 hour ball and chain job. Dont get me wrong, I love my job but sometimes I just need to slow down and realize that there is more to life than working. After the challenge , will I have time to stop and smell the roses?
[…] For some CSS purists, this is an acrid pill to swallow. I tend to agree with Eric Meyer–don’t try to map table design mental models onto CSS–it’s a recipe for heartache; practicality over purism. […]
Great interview! Thanks for that.
Have you got any plans to do one with Molly Holzschlag?
Hi Jeff,
Yes we’ll be interviewing Molly when she comes over to London for her next workshop.
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