Dori Smith

Location: CA | San Francisco Bay Area | USA
Speaking Topics: iPhone | mobile | gadgets | blogging | social networking | online communities | Internet | Web 2.0 | Javascript | CSS | SEO | Web standards | Dreamweaver | Women in IT | HTML | community | twitter | Ajax | Widgets | gender | OS X | weblogs | Web development | mac OS | wikis | jquery | video | tech writing | YUI
Spoken Languages: English

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How many hats can one woman wear?

I'm an expert in fields from the Mac (since 1992), Web development (since 1995), programming (since 1977—yes, really), online communities (since 1994), and weblogging (since 1999). I've written and taught about all of these, and more.

Books I've authored or co-authored:

  • Styling Web Pages with CSS: Visual QuickProject Guide (Peachpit Press, 2009)
  • JavaScript & Ajax for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, 7 ed. (Peachpit, 2009), and 6 ed. (Peachpit, 2007)
  • Dreamweaver CS4 for Windows & Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit, 2009)
  • Ajax Essential Training video course (Lynda.com, 2008)
  • JavaScript Essential Training video course (Lynda.com, 2007)
  • Dreamweaver CS3 for Windows & Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit, 2007)
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver 8: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit, 2005)
  • Mac OS X Unwired (O'Reilly Media, 2003)
  • Java 2 for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit, 2002)
  • Java for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit, 1998)
  • JavaScript for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide, 2 ed. (Peachpit, 1997), 3 ed. (1999), 4 ed. (2001), 5 ed. (2003), and Student ed (2003)
Previous Presentations: 
• Macworld Expo, on topics from "Web Design and Delivery" (two-day Power Tools conference), "Webmaster 2003," "Advanced Webmaster Applications," "JavaScript Bootcamp," and "JavaScript Dynamic HTML Wizardry." Led one of the two MacBrainiac challenge teams in 2006.
• Web-related conferences including Voices that Matter, Webstock (New Zealand), SxSW (2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009), Web Design World, Web Builder, CNET Builder.com Live!, Script 'Scape Geek Cruise, Perl Whirl Geek Cruise, Web Design '99, Web Design World '99, and JavaScript '98.
• Mac-related conferences including O'Reilly Mac OS X Conferences, NCMUG Mac Computer Expos, and MacMania Geek Cruises.

Stephanie Sullivan

Location: AZ | Phoenix | US
Speaking Topics: accessibility | Adobe products | CSS | Dreamweaver | search engine optimization | Spry | Web standards | women in technology

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Founder and principal of web standards redesign company "W3Conversions, Stephanie Sullivan is a CSS, accessibility and Dreamweaver expert, whose services are in demand by top firms across the United States. She's a top gun that companies go to for training their web team, or to work behind-the-scenes transforming their in-house designs into functioning Web standards-based websites.

Previous Presentations: 
www.w3conversions.com/news.html
(The above URL is a link to my past presentations - the front of my site has my upcoming schedule.)
SXSW - What Women Need to Succeed