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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Thursday, April 6th, 2006
Fresh from the forums at Accessify comes the news of The University of Bath’s (failed) redesign. Expect the usual tables-based layout, poorly optimised images, missing alt text and non-semantic markup we’re so used to seeing in 1999.
Technorati tag: FailedRedesigns
Thursday, January 26th, 2006
You may recall Boo.com, a fashion retailer from the so-called dotcom era that managed to blow £178 million during it’s 6 month life. Well, they will back in June and judging from the simple announcement page it isn’t going to be standards compliant. Start writing now.
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
Spotted over at the Web Standards Project comes this news about the new IEEE website. Unbelievably, or perhaps not, the standards site fails to meet web standards. The usual suspects are there (or not as the case may be):
Unprofessional I’m sure you’ll agree.
Technorati tag: FailedRedesigns
