The Authors

We live and work in the West Highlands of Scotland - a remote area in the north-west of the United Kingdom - and teach in Scotland's capital city Edinburgh as visiting lecturers. Brief CVs are given below; for more detailed information about our work, and for a complete list of all our published books, please visit our own website.

Glenfingal

This web page design for Digital Multimedia's new chapter on Design Principles (Figure 13.26, page 450) was inspired by the authors' local environment.

Nigel Chapman

Ph.D. in Computational Science, The University of Leeds
Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science, University of Cambridge
B.A/M.A. in Engineering, University of Cambridge

Formerly Lecturer in Computing Science at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland), then Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at University College London until he left to devote his time to writing and consultancy. Now a well-established author of major textbooks on multimedia and programming languages:

Web Design: A Complete Introduction
Digital Media Tools
Flash Interactivity and Scripting
Perl: the Programmer's Companion
The Late Night Guide to C++
LR Parsing: Theory and Practice

Jenny Chapman

M.Des. in Visual Communication, Edinburgh College of Art (Heriot-Watt University)
B.A. (Hons) in Visual Communication, Edinburgh College of Art (Heriot-Watt University)
B.A. (Hons) in Philosophy and the History of Art, The University of Leeds

An artist who works in animation and Web design, an author/co-author of textbooks on digital media and Web design, and a visiting Lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art. Her short experimental multimedia films have won awards in film festivals around the world.

Web Design: A Complete Introduction
Digital Multimedia
Digital Media Tools
www.animation