About the Authors

Joshua Johanan is a web developer who currently lives in South Bend, Indiana. He has been a web developer for five years. He has built sites using many different languages, including PHP, Python, JavaScript, and C#; although if asked, he would prefer using Python and JavaScript. These languages have led him to use different MVC frameworks, such as Zend Framework, Django, and .Net's MVC.

As you can see from this book, Joshua has also used JavaScript on both the backend with Node.js and frontend using many different libraries. These include Backbone, React, jQuery, and plain old JavaScript.

He currently works for a healthcare organization, writing websites in C#. This does not allow him to utilize the latest flashy browser technologies, but it does enforce good development skills, such as maintainability and scalability.

This is his first book, but he does post somewhat regularly on his blog at http://ejosh.co/de/.

I would like to thank my wife, Liz, for her support through the writing of this book. I would also like to thank Dexter and Gizmo, who hung out by my feet as I wrote most of this book.

Talha Khan is a passionate web developer, JavaScript enthusiast, software consultant, and coffee freak from Pakistan who is currently residing in UAE. He has more than five years of experience in this field. Despite graduating in mathematics and statistics, his love for web technologies pushed him toward the field of web technologies. He is experienced in developing interactive websites and web applications using PHP, MYSQL, and Dot Net Suite along with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript libraries. He has been teaching web development as well and is an active contributor on programming forums such as StackOverflow. Occasionally, he tweets at @alphaprofile.

Talha has worked and consulted on various projects for several major brands and companies. Tossdown.com, a leading restaurants and food search engine of Pakistan, is among one of his major achievements. He is also running his own start-up while educating newbies on technology. He is currently working as a software architect for UAE's biggest swimming academy, Hamilton Aquatics.

I want to thank my parents for keeping me motivated and my friends who supported me in writing, as I could count on them anytime if I had to use their laptop. I am also grateful to Tahir Ali Khan, who helped me at every step throughout my career and was like a guiding light.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the teachers and mentors who helped me shape my career and helped me whenever I needed it. These people were my source of inspiration. A special thanks to Omair Bangash, who took the risk of employing someone from a non-IT background and taught me to a level where I am now teaching others. His confidence in me was enough to push me to reach to my goals. I worked under many projects of various scales and technologies under his supervision. He helped me at every step to hone my skills. I don't think I would be have been able to write this book had it not been for his constant support and motivation. Without learning from these teachers, there is not a chance I could be doing what I do today, and it is because of them and others who I may not have listed here that I feel compelled to pass my knowledge on to those willing to learn.

Ricardo Zea hails originally from Medellín, Colombia. He is a passionate and seasoned full-stack designer who is now located in Dayton, Ohio, USA. He is always looking for ways to level up his skills and those around him. Constantly wondering how things are made on the Web, how they work, and why, have made Ricardo a very technical designer, allowing him to explain to others the intricacies of design and the technicalities of the Web in ways that are very easy to understand and assimilate.

Ricardo has a master's degree in publicity and advertising and has deep passion for understanding human behavior. He also has a fiercely competitive PC gaming hunger. Together, all this has allowed him to switch from the creative side of the brain to the rational side very easily, allowing him to visualize and create technically sound web and mobile designs that are responsive, perform well, and convey the proper message through design.

Ricardo is the author of Mastering Responsive Web Design, Packt Publishing. He's also the organizer of the CodePen Dayton meetup group. He's a member of the Dayton web developers and UX Dayton meetup groups. He's also one of the first members of SitePoint's Ambassadors program. He's also the author of the monthly web design and development newletter Level Up!. He was also a technical reviewer for Sass and Compass, Designers Cookbook, and Sass Essentials, all by Packt Publishing. For several years, he was also a Flash and CorelDRAW professor at different universities in his home country, Colombia.

Ricardo has 15 years of experience in web design and 20 years of experience in visual and graphic design.

A huge and infinite thanks to my wife, Heather, and my beautiful son, Ricardo. They are my inspiration to be a better professional, a better person, a better husband, and a better dad.

To my mom, Socorro, who showed me the values that made me the man I am today. To my dad, Ricardo "Pinta" Zea, for teaching me to be determined to not only be good at what I do but to be the best I can be.

To God, for allowing me to share with everyone my knowledge of CSS.

And to you, the readers, for giving me the chance to help you be better web professionals.