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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March 31st, 2008
With a redesign of the admin screens courtesy of Jeffrey Zeldman and Happy Cog I couldn’t resist upgrading as soon as possible to this latest version—and very nice it is too. I could have done without the PHP memory_usage errors but we got there in the end at 1.56am Sunday morning. Download WordPress 2.5 here.
March 26th, 2008
OK, here’s a weird thing. I’ve had an account at ma.gnolia.com since February 2006. I had the usual burst of energy to establish a contact list, groups and links but I ended up using del.icio.us instead. Last week Faruk added me as a contact so I headed over to the site to reciprocate the connection. But I had no bookmarks or groups or half the connections I must have built up from accessifyforum.com, Flickr, linkedin.com or after @media 2005. I’ve imported all 1047 del.icio.us links (to date) and joined a few groups so if you share my professional interests, feel free to add me as a contact and even suggest additional groups to join.
