William Harrel

As owner and operator of The Write Desktop Publisher for more than 20 years, William Harrel has been involved in designing Web and print media on computers since the early days of desktop publishing. In addition to running his own design firm, he is the author or coauthor of 19 books on designing print media, animation, and electronic documents—including titles on Photoshop, Acrobat (Acrobat for Dummies), PageMaker, and Flash. He is also the author of hundreds of magazine articles, ranging from Web and multimedia how-to’s to software reviews. His articles have appeared in PC World, Home Office Computing, Compute, Windows Magazine, Publish, Entrepreneur, Home Office, and many other magazines. He has taught Web design and graphics design applications at Cal State Northridge and other schools.