Author Janine Warner
(photo by Erin Manning)
Author, video host, web design consultant
Janine Warner's best-selling books and videos on web design have won her an international following and earned her speaking and consulting engagements around the world.
Since 1996, she's written more than a dozen books about the Internet, including Mobile Web Design For Dummies, Web Sites Do It Yourself For Dummies, Dreamweaver For Dummies (all 8 editions), Teach Yourself Dreamweaver Visually (the last 5 editions), and the Digital Family Album book series.
Janine is the host of a growing collection of training videos for KelbyTraining.com in Web design, Adobe Dreamweaver, and Cascading Style Sheets. Prior to working with Kelby Media, she created videos for TotalTraining.com on Dreamweaver and Expression Web.
"Thank goodness I came across your DVDs - everything is perfectly paced, well thought-out, well-designed, and your voice and personality are a pleasure to listen to."
-- Chris Cummings
Insight Film Studios
Janine started her career as a journalist and her articles and columns have appeared in a variety of publications, including The Miami Herald, Shape Magazine, and the Pulitzer Prize Winning Point Reyes Light newspaper. She's also a regular columnist for Layers Magazine.
Janine's experience on the Internet dates back to 1994, when she ran Visiontec Communications, a Web design firm in Northern California, where she worked for a diverse group of clients including Levi Strauss & Co., AirTouch Communications, and many other small- and medium-size businesses.
In 1998, she went to work for The Miami Herald, first as its Online Managing Editor and later as Director of New Media. She left that position to serve as Director of Latin American Operations for CNET Networks, an international technology media company.
Since 2001, Janine has run her own business as a writer, speaker, and consultant.
Janine's expertise in the Internet has landed her consulting projects from Moscow to Mexico and speaking engagements from New York to New Delhi. She is fluent in Spanish and travels regularly to Spain and Latin America for consulting and speeches.
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A popular speaker at conferences and events, Janine offers training in 'techy' topics, such as Web design and CSS, and delivers keynotes on Internet trends, the growing importance of the mobile Web, social media, and online reputation.
Janine has been a part-time faculty member at both the University of Miami and the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication, and she has had the honor of judging International Internet contests, including serving as a judge for the Knight News Challenge grant program, and the Arroba de Oro Latin American Internet awards. She also helped to create an Internet literacy program for high school students in Central America called Operación Red (Operation Network).
An award-winning former reporter, Janine earned a degree in Journalism and Spanish from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and began her career in Northern California as a reporter and editor for the Pulitzer-Prize winning Point Reyes Light, and the Spanish newspaper Vision Latina.
She lives with her husband, David LaFontaine, in Southern California.
Learn more at Janine's Web design training site at DigitalFamiy.com: