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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.

That Standards Guy is proudly powered by WordPress using my own “StrictlyTSG v3.0” theme. Site Policies.

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Now on Ma.gnolia (again)

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.

New theme

Well here it is. A fixed-width 960px layout. Yes, you read correctly - a fixed-width 960px layout. 2% of the site visitors are at 800×600 screen resolution (and yes, I know that’s not the same as browser window size). Defending the design choices already, sheesh. Still, need to go through it now and also add some more pages.

Read what I’ve been reading with Google Reader

Each month I publish a Pulse article that contains some brief commentary on a subset of articles from around the web that make it into my del.icio.us bookmarks. Today I came across a post on the Google blog pointing to a facility in Google Reader (I recently switched from Bloglines) that will allow me to publicly share what I read.

Naturally, you can subscribe to these with RSS but for ease, what follows are links to the automagically-generated web pages. Google also provide some JavaScript to publish a blogroll so if the generated HTML is clean enough I shall incorporate it into my almost-complete redesign.

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