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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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.