Jennifer Niederst Robbins has been a web designer since 1993. She designed the web's first commercial site, O'Reilly's

Global Network Navigator The Global Network Navigator (GNN) was the first commercial web publication and the first web site to offer clickable advertisements. GNN was launched in May 1993, as a project of the technical publishing company O'Reilly Media, then known as O'Re ...

(GNN). A graduate of the

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin founded the school in 1842. The main c ...

, Robbins is the author of ''Web Design in a Nutshell'', ''Learning Web Design'', and ''HTML and XHTML Pocket Reference''. She has also written corporate identity style guides for clients such as Harcourt Publishing, Americanexpress.com, and OrangeImagineering. Since 2000, Robbins has lived in

Providence, Rhode Island Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts ...

, where she has worked as a freelance designer, teacher, lecturer and consultant through her company Littlechair, Inc. According to the O'Reilly Community site, "She has spoken at major design and Internet events including

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, Seybold Seminars, the GRAFILL conference (Geilo, Norway), and one of the first W3C International Expos." She has taught at

Johnson & Wales University Johnson & Wales University (JWU) is a private university with its main campus in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded as a business school in 1914 by Gertrude I. Johnson and Mary T. Wales, JWU enrolled 7,357 students across its campuses in the fa ...

and at the

Massachusetts College of Art Massachusetts College of Art and Design, branded as MassArt, is a public college of visual and applied art in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1873, it is one of the nation’s oldest art schools, the only publicly funded independent art school ...

References

External links

Littlechair Design, Inc, Robbins' professional site

Robbins' personal site

The Cooking with Rockstars site
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