About the Reviewers
Srikanth AD is a web developer and SEO consultant. He is passionate about web development and optimizing websites for better search engine visibility and ranking.
His portfolio is available at http://www.srikanth.me.
John Eckman has more than a decade of experience designing and building web applications for organizations ranging from small non-profit organizations to Fortune 500 enterprises. Currently a Digital Strategist at ISITE Design, John works with clients to develop sustainable, strategic approaches to managing their presence on the web. Prior to ISITE Design, he was Director of Ecommerce Strategy at Optaros, leading the development of applications focused on the intersection of community, content, and commerce. Previously he was the director of development at PixelMEDIA and a principal consultant in software engineering with Molecular, Inc.
He received a Bachelor of Arts from Boston University, a Masters in Information Systems from Northeastern University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle. John is an active contributor to a number of open source communities, a founding organizer of WordCamp Boston (2010 and 2011), and the lead developer of the WPBook plugin for WordPress. Online, he can be found at johneckman.com, blogging at www.openparenthesis.org, and tweeting as @jeckman
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He also served as a technical reviewer for WordPress 3 Ultimate Security.
Lee Jordan is a designer and new media developer. She brings a strong design background and concern for the visual and emotional impact of media to web-based projects. Experienced in multiple CMS platforms including Expression Engine, Plone, WordPress, PostNuke, and Google's Blogger, she has maintained, explored, and used most of them on a day-to-day basis. She spends her spare time as the leader of a local scout troop, taking long hikes with her family in the beautiful North Georgia woods, trying to taste test every variety of chocolate that exists, and playing with code and pixels. Design topics or whatever she can think of at the time are posted on her blog at http://leejordan.net.
Lee has written and co-authored several previous books with Packt Publishing: Project Management with dotProject, WordPress Themes 2.8, Blogger: Beyond the Basics, and HTML5 Rich Media Applications.