Dan has 10 years experience in online design. After relocating from the Los Angeles Area where he headed up a team of Web designers for iMall, one of the largest online shopping portal, he joined Clear Ink a small web design company. While at Clear Ink he was an essential part of growing and shaping the creative department into an award winning entity. Once Clear Ink succumbed to the harsh economy, Dan and Kelly Salamanca joined forces to create Smashing Pixels.

Dan is well versed in many disciplines such as computer animation, digital video, and is proficient in many web based programming languages such as JavaScript, PHP and Perl. In 1999 he wrote the book Essential JavaScript for Web Professionals for Prentice Hall and he recently finished working on the second edition.

He has worked on International Web Page Award winning projects for PeopleSoft, Restoration Hardware as well as Get Real Girl which was chosen as a Macromedia Flash Site of the Day. He has also worked on projects for Hewlett-Packard, Wells Fargo, Siemens, The San Francisco Opera, Electronic Arts, Pacific Bell, Oracle, Quantum, John Muir, Aspect Communications, Etrade, Sagent, Wind River, Asera, Visx, Metricom and many more.