Native Californian Stephen Hay has been living and working in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands since 1992, and designing for the web since 1995. His roots as a designer and art director in corporate identity / packaging design and advertising served as a foundation for his current work as web design and development strategist through his own user experience consultancy Zero Interface. Stephen is a popular speaker on the subjects of CSS, web accessibility, and (web)design and open web standards, and has published several articles on these subjects. He can be contacted via email at haymail@gmail.com.