Dave Shea is a Canadian web designer and co-author of The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web.

[1] He is known for his work in web-standard development—from his design community project CSS Zen Garden to his active contributions at the Web Standards Project (WaSP).

[2] Shea is also a writer “for a large global audience of web designers and developers on his popular blog, Mezzoblue” Dave Shea - WaSP Member, emphasis on original.

Along with co-authoring his own book with Molly Holzschlag,[1] Shea has contributed to online magazines Digital Web Magazine and A List Apart.

His web work has been featured in publications such as Page Magazine, Stylesheet Stylebook, Linux Format Magazine, PIXELmag, and DMXZone.