That Standards Guy is the online persona of Karl Dawson, a web developer living and working in Ipswich, England.
I'm a member of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers and the Web Standards Group and team member at Accessites—an awards site to recognise accessible and usable websites.
I specialise as a front-end developer and worry about the minutae of semantic (X)HTML and CSS, accessibility, microformats, typographic rhythm and grid design. I also care about the user experience and remind myself constantly of visitor site goals when working with clients and their aims.
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Friday, September 30th, 2005
If you need to deliver a site search and map to a project you could do far worse than head over to the Gr0w Collective and purchase their php solution written to XHTML Strict standards. The cost? A measly £1. Yes, that’s no typo one British pound. Read the Gr0w Press Release. I’ll definitely be adding this to my toolbox.
Thanks guys!
Friday, September 30th, 2005
Well, my company wouldn’t stump up for a trip to Australia 
so it’s great to have the presentations available as podcasts. Head over to the Web Essentials ‘05 PodCasts page and at least hear what we missed.
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
Roger Johansson has just kicked off a new series of articles over at 456 Berea Street. Too few developers use CSS selectors to their full potential and whilst a lot can be achieved by using ID, class and type there are many more that can help keep your HTML a lot cleaner.
CSS2.1 selectors have patchy support up to and including Internet Explorer 6 but all recent browsers support most if not all of CSS2.1 - so be aware of this in your designs.
The article is here CSS 2.1 selectors, Part 1
