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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.

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Beginner’s Guide to Web Standards

Ian Lloyd, he of many hats has been rather busy lately and today I hope he’s putting his feet up and enjoying the day with a chilled beverage of choice. A big round of applause and congratulations for his just-released SitePoint book entitled “Build Your Own Website the Right Way Using HTML and CSS“.

It’s a book for the absolute beginner who wants to do things properly, who wants to become truly skilled, rather than throw together a website for the sake of having one. Does that sound like what you’re after?

SitePoint will shortly have some preview chapters in pdf but the publicity machine is ahead of the game at the moment, so check Ian’s blog or SitePoint regularly for availability.

And if you go to a bricks-and-mortar book store? Be sure to pester the buyer that this is the book to stock for beginners.

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