I became aware of the immediate importance of HTML5 thanks to Michael Wilson, Zach Dunn, and Nick Greenfi eld, who brought it to my attention. Th ey also introduced me to Smashing Magazine and a number of other emerging new trends. Chris Webb of Wiley guided the direction of the book and, in concert with Margot Hutchinson of Waterside Productions, was able to clear a path for the book to move ahead. Ellie Scott of Wiley helped take care of the many details necessary in forging the book’s inception. Elizabeth Kuball worked as an able editor to clarify and smoothen everything I wrote, and Harvey Chute, the technical editor, worked to make sure that all the code was done correctly and off ered suggestions for improvement. Finally, my colleagues at the University of Hartford’s Multimedia Web Design and Development program, John Gray and Brian Dorn, helped when asked, including one terrible moment when a missing semicolon wrecked havoc on a program.