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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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Mastering Your WordPress Theme Hacks and Techniques

Noupe.com has released the first of a four-part series of posts highlighting useful hacks, tips and techniques for getting the most out of WordPress.

Using the HTML em and strong elements

Mike Cherim has a great back-to-basics article on the use of em and strong. Oh yes, you do need to read it. Did you know that two popular screen readers, namely JAWS and Window Eyes, offer no support for these elements with voice pitch changes?

Internet Explorer 8 readiness kit

Catching up with the rest of the browsers, Microsoft have released the IE8 readiness kit. Early days but no extra CSS3 support above what IE7 provides. I can’t help yawning but so long as Visual Studio doesn’t add the version targeting meta tag (to put it into IE7 rendering mode) by default I’ll be happy.

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