Biographical note

Richard Carter is a web designer and frontend web developer based in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East of England. His experience includes many open source e-commerce and content management systems, including Magento, MediaWiki, WordPress, and Drupal. He has worked with clients including the University of Edinburgh, University College Dublin, Directgov, NHS Choices, and BusinessLink.gov.uk. He is a creative director at Peacock Carter Ltd (peacockcarter.co.uk), a web design and development agency based in the North East of England. He graduated from the University of Durham in Software Engineering, and currently lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. He blogs at earlgreyandbattenburg.co.uk and tweets as @RichardCarter and @PeacockCarter. This is his sixth book. He has previously written MediaWiki Skins Design, Magento 1.3 Theme Design, Magento 1.4 Theme Design, Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook, and The Beginner's Guide to Drupal Commerce, and acted as a technical reviewer on MediaWiki 1.1 Beginners Guide, Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook, and Apress' The Defi nitive Guide To Drupal 7.