About

Dan Cederholm, Principal

A designer, author, speaker, husband and father living in Salem, Massachusetts. Dan is the Founder and Principal of SimpleBits, LLC, a tiny web design studio.

A recognized expert in the field of standards-based web design, Dan has worked with YouTube, Google, MTV, EA.com, AIGA, ESPN, Blogger, Fast Company, Inc.com, and others. With each new project, comes an opportunity to minimize markup and embrace the flexibility of CSS.

Dan is co-founder and designer of Dribbble, a vibrant community for sharing screenshots of your work. He also co-founded Cork’d, the first social network for wine aficionados which was later acquired by Gary Vaynerchuk.

He is the author of three popular books: Handcrafted CSS (New Riders), Bulletproof Web Design (New Riders) and Web Standards Solutions (Friends of ED).

Dan enjoys sharing his simplistic approach to web design, while spreading the word on the standards-based markup and style techniques he’s collected by speaking at conferences and corporations worldwide.

He also plays a mean ukulele and occassionally wears a baseball cap.

Interviews with Dan →

Photo by Todd Wemmer

Meagan Fisher, Deputy Designer

Meagan Fisher is a web designer who works through the night to create simple interfaces and well-written markup.

When not conspiring with SimpleBits to take over the world, she creates web magic with her own clients. Along the way she has worked with Rails Machine, Halogen Guides, Airbag Industries, Change.org, and MTV. She writes about her experiences, and occasionally about chintzy owl accessories, on owltastic.com.