People who have inspired me...

Tim Berners Lee

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA (born June 8, 1955) is an English developer who invented the World Wide Web in March 1989. With the help of Mike Sendall, Robert Cailliau, and a young student staff at CERN, he implemented his invention in 1990, with the first successful communication between a client and server via the Internet on December 25, 1990. He is also the director of the World Wide Web Consortium. Above everything he instilled in me that free exchange of information that the Web provides will ultimately unite mankind.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Jeffrey Zeldman is a prominent lecturer and author on web design. He also runs his own web design studio, Happy Cog, and has maintained a blog, Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report, on the topic since 1995. His most recent book is titled Designing With Web Standards. Zeldman co-founded the Web Standards Project (WaSP), a group of professional website designers dedicated to disseminating and encouraging the use of the standards promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Zeldman is generally held to be one of a vanguard of proficient visual designers who adopted standards-based, cross-browser solutions to web-design problems. In particular, he helped destroy the myth that accessible websites have to be ugly or apparently "undesigned". His books and websites have helped promote a general improvement in the technical, visual design, usability and accessibility of websites.

Dave Shea

Dave Shea is a Canadian web designer, and author of The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web. He is known for his work in web-standard development—from his design community project CSS Zen Garden to his active contributions at the Web Standards Project (WaSP). Shea is also a writer “for a large global audience of web designers and developers on his popular weblog, Mezzoblue”; and is the founder and creative director of Bright Creative in Vancouver, BC.

Eric Meyer

Eric A. Meyer is a prominent American web design consultant and author. He is best known for his advocacy work on behalf of web standards, most notably Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), a technique for managing how HTML is displayed. Meyer has written a number of books and articles on CSS and given many presentations promoting its use.

Stu Nichols

His websites Css Play and StuNichols.com have helped me understand and be able to effectively use CSS and javascript in my websites plus he makes his code freely available to make the learning curve a lot less steep.