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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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Foolish Web Development

January 23rd, 2006

I like the Foolish advice on offer at the Motley Fool website so when their latest email proclaimed of a new home page I just had to go peak under the hood.

How foolish! An incorrectly declared DOCTYPE for starters: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">. Hmmm. It gets worse with improperly closed tags, unescaped ampersands, proprietary tags and a real mish-mash of CSS and table-based layout. My eyes started bleeding halfway through so this isn’t an exhaustive list.

I suspect that, as the incorrect DOCTYPE hints at, this is a transitional move of old content to a new look but Fools, please use a development box and give us the new look when you’re properly ready. Oh, and don’t forget the investors with accessibility issues either. Ta.

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This entry was posted on Monday, January 23rd, 2006 at 7:08 pm and is filed under Failed Redesigns.

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