About For A Beautiful Web

Andy Clarke onstage at @media 2008 (Photo credit)

For A Beautiful Web is a series of web design master-classes, hosted by world renowned web designer and author Andy Clarke, covering topics including visual design for the web, best-practice mark-up and progressive CSS, cool Microformats and practical web accessibility design and techniques.

We keep our audiences small so that everyone will get individual attention and we back up the knowledge that you will go home with, with the highest quality take away materials. Say “hello” to the For A Beautiful Web series of web design master-classes.

Andy inspires consistently. This was the second course I’ve attended and once again I’m going away from it ready to go to work (even on a Friday afternoon)!

~ Rob Langdon

We are really excited about For A Beautiful Web and to meeting new people along the way. We hope we will see you there.

Your host, Andy Clarke

Andy Clarke has been called a lot of things since he started working on the web ten years ago. His ego likes words like “ambassador for CSS”, “industry prophet” and “inspiring”, but actually he is most proud that Jeffrey Zeldman once called him a “bastard”.

Andy is a member of the Web Standards Project and a former invited expert to the W3C’s CSS Working Group. He took ten months out of his life to write the best-selling book Transcending CSS: The Fine Art Of Web Design, but Andy’s passion is amazing web design. He loves making designs for the web, writing about design and teaching it at workshops and conferences all of the world.

Stuff and Nonsense

Based in North Wales, Stuff and Nonsense is a small web site design studio, led by designer and author Andy Clarke. We have built an enviable worldwide reputation because we understand that designing a fantastic web site is only part of the story. We never forget that we are designing fantastic experiences.

We focus on what makes a web site fantastic — great presentation, simple usability and solid technologies that make it easy for you to grow your site. This is why our clients love us, and why they keep coming back.

About Stuff and Nonsense

We have been designing and developing fantastic web sites for our clients from our tiny studio in North Wales since 1998. We may be small but we have made a big name for ourselves and we are now well-known around the world.

Our aims are simple — to make nice work for nice people — work that we can be proud of. We aim to stay small and stay passionate about what we do best: creative design for the web.

Designer and author Andy Clarke writes:

When my wife and I moved to rural North Wales to get away from the stress of living and working in and around London, word soon got around. Before we were fully unpacked, people started asking us to work for them. I am pleased that over ten years later, people are still asking.

Our clients have and do include: Disney Store UK, Liverpool University, New Internationalist, Ogilvy One, Save The Children UK, WWF UK and xStrata.

Andy Clarke

Andy Clarke has been called a lot of things since he started working on the web at Stuff and Nonsense ten years ago. His ego likes words like ambassador for CSS, industry prophet and inspiring, but actually he is most proud that Jeffrey Zeldman once called him a bastard

Andy is a member of the Web Standards Project and a former invited expert to the W3C’s CSS Working Group. He took ten months out of his life to write the best-selling book Transcending CSS: The Fine Art Of Web Design, but Andy's passion is amazing web design. He loves making designs for the web, writing about design and teaching it at workshops and conferences all over the world.