About the Author

David Powers is the author of a more than a dozen highly successful books and video courses on web design and development, including PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy, Second Edition (friends of ED, ISBN: 978-1-4302-3249-0) and Adobe Dreamweaver CS6: Learn by Video: Core Training in Web Communication (Peachpit Press, ISBN: 978-0-321-84037-0). He also served as the technical reviewer on Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation, Second Edition by Owen Briggs, Steven Champeon, et al. (friends of ED), and Head First HTML and CSS by Elisabeth Robson and Eric Freeman (O’Reilly). He is an Adobe Community Professional, and is constantly urging the Dreamweaver development team to improve support for web standards and the latest developments in CSS3.

David first began developing websites in 1994 when, as Editor, BBC Japanese TV, he needed a way to promote his fledgling TV channel with next to no budget. He persuaded the IT department to let him have some space on a web server, and created and maintained a bilingual Japanese-English website, much of it coded by hand. After a career in radio and TV journalism spanning nearly 30 years, he left the BBC at the turn of the century, and continued developing bilingual websites for leading clients, including the Japanese Foreign Ministry and an international consultancy. Since 2006, he’s devoted himself full time to writing and teaching.

David has also translated several plays from Japanese. To relax, he enjoys nothing better than some cold sake and sushi.