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Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization

Acknowledgments

Many people selflessly contributed their time and expertise to this book. Nearly everyone that I contacted shared their insights with me and answered my questions. It is this spirit of cooperation that makes the Internet such a wonderful place to work, and an ideal environment to write this type of book. Below you'll find the people and sites I list in the acknowledgements of the book, plus some others who helped out along the way. Thanks to everyone.

General

Prof. Panos Papalambros - Optimization professor
Bob Peyser - Business partner
Dan Ragle - internet.com
Scott Clark - internet.com
Tammie Bruneau - Graphic artist
Bradley Glonka - System administrator
Lou Rosenfeld - Book author
Wendy Peck - Book author

WebReference Content Providers

Peter Belesis - DHTML
Michael Claßen - XML
Jonathan Eisenzopf - Perl
Daniel Giordan - Graphics
Nick Heinle - JavaScript
Dmitry Kirsanov - Design (kirsanov.com)
Mark Merkow - ECommerce
Wendy Peck - Graphics (wpeck.com)
Stephanos Piperoglou - HTML & CSS (piperoglou.com)
Robert Polevoi - 3D Graphics and Animation
Yehuda and Tomer Shiran - JavaScript
Richard Wiggins - Internet (richardwiggins.com)

Part I: The Psychology of Performance

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ph.D. - Flow/interview
Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D. - Usability/Foreword
Chris Roast, Ph.D. - Attunability
Benjamin Schneiderman, Ph.D. - Response time/interview
Marceli Wein, Ph.D. - Response time
Ken Winter, Ph.D. - Flow

Part II: Optimizing Markup: HTML and XHTML

Travis Anton - Graphics & Mizer (now SpaceAgent)
Bob Clary - Netscape.com
Bradley Glonka - System administrator
Michael Schröpl - (X)HTML compression
Johannes Selbach - VSE Web Site Turbo, Google ranking study
Jeffrey Zeldman - Standards, and A List Apart

Part III: DHTML Optimization: CSS and JavaScript

Douglas Bagnall - 5K chess game
John Bandhauer and Robert Ginda - Venkman profiler
Peter Belesis - DHTML menus
Aaron Boodman - DHTML
Lon Boonen - JavaScript and code
Stuart Butterfield - The 5K
Robert Chandler - JavaScript compression
Eric Costello - The 5K
Kwon Ekstrom - CSS
Mike Hall - DHTML Menus
Bob Ippolito - JavaScript
Jim Ley - The JavaScript FAQ
Thomas Loo - JavaScript compression
Eric Meyer - CSS
Chris Nott - JavaScript
Michel Plungjan - JavaScript
Scott Porter - JavaScript and code
Stuart Robertson - CSS
Christopher Schmitt - CSS
Michael Schröpl - JavaScript compression
Yehuda and Tomer Shiran - JavaScript

Part IV: Graphics and Multimedia Optimization

Toyin Akinmusuru - Flash
Jack Berlin and Jim Bean - JPEG
Chuck Duff - Graphics
Greg Roelofs - PNG

Part V: Search Engine Optimization

Fredrick Marckini - SEO / case study
Danny Sullivan - SEO
Bert Van Kets - SEO / tech edits

Part VI: Advanced Optimization Techniques

Ralf Engelschall - mod_rewrite
Bradley Glonka - System administrator
Chuck Hagenbuch - PHP sniffing
Peter Hegedus - internet.com
Richard Litofsky - BrowserHawk, browser sniffing with JSP
Darrell King - PHP sniffing
Dan Ragle - internet.com
Igor Sysoev - mod_deflate

Final Thanks

Laura Loveall and Sarah Kearns - Development Editors, New Riders
Elise Walter - Acquisitions Editor, New Riders
Bert Van Kets - Tech Editor
Porter Glendinning - Tech Editor
Peggy Morgan - Unofficial Editor
Wendy Peck - Unofficial Editor
Jason Wolf - Multimedia chapter and Apple Case study contributing author
Konstantin Balashov - Compression chapter contributing author, co-wrote Graphics chapter
John and Jean King - Parents