Aaron Gustafson

AARON GUSTAFSON began teaching himself HTML in 1996, while creating a website for a magazine he was publishing. In 2000, he left the print world to focus on the web, and relocated to Connecticut, where he began pushing pixels and bits for many top companies, including Aetna, Delta Airlines, IBM and Scholastic.

In 2003, Aaron took a position in the interactive department at Cronin and Company, a regional ad agency. In less than a year, he helped grow the department’s revenue by over $1 million and set the standards (pun intended) for all web development within the agency. Under Aaron’s leadership, the websites Cronin produced for its clients garnered numerous awards for design and use of web standards. In early 2006, Aaron left Cronin to focus on building his own consultancy, Easy! Designs, LLC, and on writing.

In addition to being a member of The Web Standards Project (WaSP), Aaron sits on the Advisory Panel for WOW (formerly World Organization of Webmasters) and is a member of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS). He serves as Production Editor for A List Apart, is a contributing writer for Digital Web Magazine, and recently authored several chapters of the newly-updated Web Design in a Nutshell (3rd Edition, O’Reilly).

Aaron has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences including COMDEX, MacWorld and SXSW, and is frequently called on to provide web standards training in both the public and private sector.

He blogs at easy-reader.net.