About

Zoe Gillenwater

About Zoe Mickley Gillenwater

I am an experienced web designer and technical author, active in the web standards community, who specializes in visual design, CSS, and accessibility. I’m the author of the New Riders books Stunning CSS3: A Project-based Guide to the Latest in CSS and Flexible Web Design: Creating Liquid and Elastic Layouts with CSS and the video training title Web Accessibility Principles for lynda.com, and I have written nearly 100 articles and tutorials for publications like .net Magazine, Smashing Magazine, and the web development training site Community MX on a variety of web design topics. I am currently a member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Adobe Task Force and enjoy helping others learn web standards through my work as a moderator of the popular css-discuss mailing list, editor for Adobe’s CSS Advisor web site documenting browser bugs and fixes, technical book editor, conference speaker, and consultant.

I currently work as an accessibility specialist for AT&T. In the past, I worked as a freelance web and print designer and consultant, specializing in web design and front-end development, logo design, and graphic design of marketing materials. I also worked as the design services manager at a university research center and the webmaster of a design agency, so I have experience in freelance, in-house, and agency design workflows.

You can learn more about my work experience and skills on my LinkedIn profile.

I live in Carrboro, North Carolina, right next door to Chapel Hill and the great UNC Tar Heels. I’ve got a fantastic husband and an adorable and energetic little girl.

Working with Zoe

Though I’m currently employed full-time, I’m interested in working on meaningful web design projects on a freelance basis, such as non-profits in need and interesting start-ups. Clients located near me in the Triangle area of North Carolina are great, but proximity is certainly not necessary; past and present clients range from Finland to California.

I also really enjoy training others in web standards-based design and development through writing and speaking at conferences. If I can help with your publication or event, I’d love to hear from you.

Please use the short form in the column to the right to contact me with some ideas of how I might be able to help you. I’ll get back to you quickly so we can talk in more detail about your needs.

About this Site

This site is powered by WordPress, not just for the blog postings, but for all of the pages. I built the WordPress theme myself from scratch, and it’s of course always a work in progress!

I mostly hand code, but I use Adobe Dreamweaver as a tool for all of my web development work, including this site.

The site’s layout is liquid/fluid with an elastic sidebar. It uses CSS3 media queries to adapt to very narrow screens.