Rachel Andrew


Rachel Andrew is a British web developer, author and speaker. She is an Invited Expert to the World Wide Web Consortium CSS Working Group, Google Developer Expert, and a former member of the Web Standards Project. She is the editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine.
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Education

Andrew took online courses at Open University.

Career

Andrew began working as a web developer in 1996 at a .com company that folded during the Dot-com bubble burst. She said that she became self-employed afterward because it was more stable.
In 2001, she founded edgeofmyseat.com,' the web development company behind Perch CMS, a content management system, and Notist, an application for building public speaking portfolios.
Andrew is a Technical Writer at Google, and works on MDN Web Docs on behalf of Google and Mozilla.'
Andrew has authored or co-authored more than twenty books about web development. She is also a regular contributor to A List Apart, and speaker.

Books

  • Rachel Andrew. ' A Book Apart. Published:Oct 10, 2017.
  • Jeremy Keith, Rachel Andrew. '. A Book Apart. Published:First Ed. May 4, 2010; Second Ed. Feb 17, 2016.
  • Rachel Andrew. . A Book Apart. Published:Jan 7, 2016.
  • Rachel Andrew. The Profitable Side Project Handbook. Publication date: January 2014. .
  • Rachel Andrew. CSS3 Layout Modules. Publication date: August 2014. .
  • Harry Roberts, Nicholas C. Zakas, Christian Heilmann, Tim Kadlec, Mat Marquis, Addy Osmani, Aaron Gustafson, Paul Tero, Rachel Andrew, Nishant Kothary, Christopher Murphy. '. Publication date: November 2013. ISBN : 978-3-94454060-3. ISBN : 978-3-94454058-0. ISBN : 978-3-94454059-7. ISBN : 978-3-94454057-3
  • Rachel Andrew. '. SitePoint Pty Ltd. Publication date: March 2012
  • Elliot Jay Stocks, Paul Boag, Rachel Andrew, Ben Schwarz, Lea Verou, David Storey, Christian Heilmann, Dmitry Fadeyev, Marc Edwards, Aaron Walter, Aral Balkan, Stephen Hay, Andy Clarke. The Smashing Book 3 - Redesign the Web. Published by Smashing Magazine. Publication date: May 2012
  • Rachel Andrew. The CSS Anthology . SitePoint Pty Ltd. Publication date: August 2009
  • Rachel Andrew, Kevin Yank. Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong. SitePoint Pty Ltd. Publication date: October 2008
  • Rachel Andrew, Dan Shafer. HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS. SitePoint Pty Ltd. Publication date: April 2006
  • Rachel Andrew. Build Your Own Standards Compliant Website Using Dreamweaver 8. SitePoint Pty Ltd. Publication date: September 2005
  • Rachel Andrew. The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks . SitePoint Pty Ltd. Publication date: August 2007
  • Rachel Andrew. The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks . SitePoint Pty Ltd. Publication date: August 2004
  • Costas Hadjisotiriou, Kevin Marshall, Rachel Andrew. ASP.NET Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004. Apress. Publication date: April 2004
  • Rachel Andrew, Rob Turnbull, Alan Foley, Drew McLellan. ASP Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004. Apress. Publication date: February 2004
  • Rachel Andrew, Allan Kent, David Powers. PHP Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004. Apress. Publication date: July 2004
  • Rachel Andrew, Craig Grannell, Allan Kent, Christopher Schmitt. Dreamweaver MX 2004 Design Projects. Friends of Ed. Publication date: October 2004
  • Rachel Andrew, Gareth Downes-Powell, Nancy Gill, Kevin Marshall, Drew McLellan. The Dreamweaver Developer’s Instant Troubleshooter. Apress. Publication date: July 2003
  • Rachel Andrew, Christopher Schmitt, Allan Kent, Craig Grannell. Dreamweaver MX Design Projects. Glasshaus. Publication date: January 2003
  • Rachel Andrew, Crystal Waters, Chris Ullman. Fundamental Web Design and Development Skills. Glasshaus. Publication date: September 2003
  • Rachel Andrew, Alan Foley, Omar Elbaga, Rob Turnbull, Bob Regan. Dynamic Dreamweaver MX''. Glasshaus. Publication date: July 2002

Personal life

Andrew left school at age 16, reporting that her General Certificates of Secondary Education were "dreadful".' She originally trained to be a dancer and choreographer, and worked backstage in the theatre as a carpenter.' At age 22, Andrew became pregnant and started freelancing as a typist, processing documents like Curriculum Vitaes.'
During her time as a typist, Andrew spent time on internet forums to connect with other parents, and learned HTML from the other participants.' She later taught herself other programming languages and started working as a web developer.
Andrew lives in Bristol, United Kingdom and has a daughter.''''