About
My name is Estelle Weyl. I am a freelance web developer, speak and teach about web development on occasion, and am an internationally published author. I’ve been coding CSS, XHTML, JavaScript and PHP since 1999, tableless CSS since 2003. If you have any recommendations on topics for me to hit, please let me know via comments. At some point I will tell you a little about myself. But, in the meantime, I will spend time sharing knowledge I gain as I continue to develop websites.
Estelle Weyl’s Books
HTML5 & CSS3 in The Real World
(Sitepoint, May 2011)

Mobile HTML5
(O’Reilly, Nov. 2012)

HTML5: The Definitive Guide
(O’Reilly, Dec. 2012)

Chapter in Perf Daybook
(O’Reilly, June 2012)

Want to hear me speak? You can:
Speaking Engagements
2013 Presentations:
- Open Web Camp. San Jose, CA. July
- Full day CSS Workshop & Full Day HTML5 Workshop
HTML5RoadShow. Boulder, CO – REGISTER - Mobile CSS workshop
Debugging Mobile Apps
Dutch Mobile Conference. Amsterdam, NL. June - HTML5 JavaScript APIs
Fluent, San Francisco, CA. May - Selectors
Mobile Performance
Future Insights Live, Las Vegas, NV. May - RWD: Performance Considerations
RWD Summit, Online. April - Web performance considerations in a mobile world
FrontTrends. Warsaw, PL. April - Mobile CSS
BDConf. Orlando, FL. April - Selectors Level 3 & 4
SXSW, Austin, TX, March - HTML5 Web Forms
Mobile Performance
ConFoo, Montreal, Canada. February - Mobile Web Application Performance
Best of Oreilly, Online. February - 10 Things Your Browser Can Do,
CSS Full Day workshop,
HTML5tx, Austin, TX. February - Improving Diversity
VelocitySummit, San Francisco, CA. January
2012 Presentations:
- Mobile Web Performance. SFPerformance Group. December
- CSS3 In Depth, Front End Masters, Savage, MN. December 14.
- CSS Dev Conf, Honolulu, HI. December 3
- CSS3 + Mobile, InControl, Honolulu, HI. December 2
- CSS Workshop, Honolulu, HI. December 1
- Panel, JS.Everywhere, Paris, FR. November 17
- Making it Snow (CSS animation) JS.Everywhere, Paris, FR. November 17.
- You don’t need a framework for that: JavaScript Summit, Online, November 13
- CSS3: From Good to Great. BurfieldCreative, Bath, UK. November 11.
- HTML5 Web Forms, CodeKen, London, UK. November 6. (Video)
- You don’t need a framework for that, JS.Everywhere, Santa Jose, CA. October 26.
- Web Performance Primer. Confident Coding: Everything You need to know, San Francisco, October 20
- CSS3 Selectors. Silicon Valley Code Camp, Los Altos, CA. October 6.
- ShopTalk, Online, August 30 (interview) (Audio)
- Mobile: Don’t Break the Web, Web Performance Summit, August 1
- CSS3 Animation, CSSSummit IV, Online, July
- Select This!, Innovators of the Web Conference. San Francisco, CA. July 21
- CSS: From Good to Great, OSCON: Portland, OR. July 17.
- HTML5 Web Forms, Open Web Camp, Palo Alto, CA. July 14
- Introduction to JS (Full day workshop), Confident Coding II, Mountain View, CA. June 9.
- Mobile Web Application Performance. Velocity Conf: Santa Clara, CA. June 2012
- HTML5 Web Forms. Dutch Mobile Conf, Amsterdam, NL. June 2012
Mobile Web Performance Dutch Mobile Conf, Amsterdam, NL. June 2012
CSS Workshop Dutch Mobile Conf, Amsterdam, NL. June 2012 - HTML5 Overview. Dutch PHP Conf, Amsterdam, NL. June 2012
- You Don’t Need Framework for that. FluentConf. San Francisco, CA. May 2012
- Animating with CSS3 FluentConf. San Francisco, CA. May 2012
- Select This! CSS Selectors HTML5DevConf, San Francisco, CA May, 2012
- CSS3 Gradients, HTML5 Community Night, Microsoft. Mountain View, CA April 2012
- Confident Coding: JavaScript for the Web Full day workshop. San Francisco, CA. April 2012
- HTML5 Mobile Boot Camp (3 Day training). East Hartford, CT. March 2012
- CSS3 Mad Skillz, SXSW: Austin, TX. March 2012
- CSS: From Knowledgable to Ninja. Webstock: Wellington, NZ. February 2012
- Mobile: Don’t Break the Web Webstock: Wellington, NZ. February 2012
- HTML5: The Good Enough Parts, GTUGSF Code Lab: San Francisco, CA. January 2012
2011 Presentations:
- CASCADE: San Francisco, December 7, 2011
- Rich Web Experience: Ft. Lauderdale, November 29, 2011 – December 2, 2011
- CSS3: The Good Enough Parts
- HTML5: Overview
- CSS3: Stuff and Questions Answered (no slide deck)
- CSS Snow Animation</li>
- HTML5: The Good Enough Parts
- Mobile UI Performance
- HTML5 Web Forms
- Panel (no slides)
- jQuery Summit: jQuery & CSS Selectors. Online. November 15, 2011
- Velocity Europe: Berlin, November 8, 2011
- Silicon Valley Code Camp: HTML5 Web Forms, October 9, 2011
- Silicon Valley Code Camp: Advanced CSS3, October 9, 2011
- HTML5TX: HTML5 Web Forms. October 8, 2011
- HTML5TX: Panel Discussion. October 8, 2011
- WITI: NextGen. October 2, 2011
- WordCampSF: August 13, 2011
- OSCON: Web Forms, July 27, 2011
- CSS Summit 3: CSS3 Animations, Transition & Transforms, July,26 2011
- OSCON: CSS3 & HTML5: The good enough parts, July 25, 2011
- Open Web Camp: CSS3 Done Now. CSS3 Done Right. July 16, 2011
- jQuery Conference: Selectors in the Age of jQuery. April 16, 2011
- SXSW: CSS3: Beyond the Basics. 3 hour workshop. March 14, 2011
- Women’s Day of JS, January 29, 2011
2010 talks included:
- HTML Master Class: November 15, 2010. FOWD, New York.
- Forms with HTML5: DOE Interlabs 2010, Oak Ridge, TN, November 3, 2010
- HTML5 SF: HTML5 Webforms, August 26, 2010
- Google Technology User Group: CSS3 implementable Features, August 14, 2010 at Google
- Google Technology User Group: Mobile Web Development, August 13, 2010 at Google
- CSS Summit 2: CSS3 & iPhone Development, July 28, 2010
- Open Web Camp 2: CSS3 Implementable Features, July 17, 2010
- “CSS3 & HTML5 Support in Webkit”, iPadDevCamp, April 2010
- “View Source Has a Posse – SXSW on March, 2010,
- “Making a Website 101″ @ Dare2BDigital February, 2010 (2 sessions)
- “CSS3 and Current Browser support” at Silicon Valley Web Builders on February, 2010.
Talks from 2009 are outdated, and not included
iPhone Web Applications:
- iAds (American Express (iPhone) and Target(iPhone and iPad)
- First Runner Up, Best Application, iPhoneDev Camp 2007Pickleview
- Best Game, iPhoneDevCamp 2008 TattleTalz
- Best Web Application, iPadDevCamp 2010 iUIPad – JS & CSS framework for iPad
Resume
Books and Writings
You can find me writing here about CSS3, HTML5 and the DOM. I write at Evotech.Net/blog about CSS2.1, XHTML, and Javascript. I write more intro level stuff and provide tech support for members at CommunityMX.com. Not yet finished is my first book, Mobile Web Apps: HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for WebKit.
Girl Geeks Unite
Part of the purpose of this blog is to demonstrate to all the school girls interested in technology: This is a great profession for women. And, to all the young women majoring in computer science, and all the other women who are changing their careers to be a technologist: you can do it!
A comment about comments
All relevant comments will be approved whether they slam my work or support it, as long as the poster legitimately identifies themselves. Differing opinions are o.k. The reason there is an approval process is because I have better things to do than weed out spam, and web developers have better things to do then weed thru useless comments.