About
My name is Harry Roberts — I am a 20 year old web developer. I currently live in Leeds, but am originally from a small town in the North of England called Cleckheaton. Although I may share my name with the infamous police killer, I’m not half as nasty, honest. I currently work for Venturelab as a web developer specialising in all things web standards.
Harry Roberts—owner of CSS Wizardry, author of Web Design+, creator of Typogridphy.
Keywords: XHTML, CSS, HTML5, CSS3, Progressive Enhancement, Typography, PHP, Accessibility, Usability, Semantics, Web Standards, Grids, UX, UI, iPhone.
I am completely self-taught over the last three years or so and have a real passion for web standards, accessibility, sensible and semantic code, grids, typography, learning new techniques and building websites correctly.
About my work
I take pride in my work, and always enjoy delivering high quality builds for my own — just as much as the clients’ — gratification. I enjoy making things work first time, but conversely also enjoy overcoming challenges.
I have always been interested in web standards, accessibility, usability and semantics, but more recently I have become enthralled with grids and typography. So much so that I decided to make my own typographical CSS framework, Typogridphy.
| Education/Occupation | |
|---|---|
| 1995–2003 | First and Middle Schools |
| 2003–2006 | High School — 13 A–C grade GCSEs |
| 2006–Jul 2008 | 6th Form College — 3 A Levels in Business, Product Design and Media Studies |
| Web developer for Keyclicks UK Ltd. | |
| Jul 2008–Jan 2010 | Web developer for Sense Internet Ltd. |
| Jan 2010–Present | Web developer for Venturelab. |
Colophon
This is the 3½th iteration of CSS Wizardry. It was hand-coded in xHTML, CSS and PHP using Notepad++.
The xHTML is Strict, semantic, clean, sensible and valid. The CSS is exactly what it should be, clean and sensible with no hacks and it uses the cascade. The blogging engine is provided by the amazing Wordpress.
Yes, this site does work fine in IE! If yours doesn’t, you’re doing it wrong…
CSS Wizardry also makes use of a few little CSS3 and progressive enhancement touches here and there. The whole idea of progressive enhancement that nothing breaks in non-supportive browser, it simply just works in ones that do. In order to experience these additional perks, try Safari or Chrome, then Firefox, then Internet Explorer.
Most of the articles from the old CSS Wizardry (v. 1–3) are gone, but the more notable ones have been rewritten and are kept in the Toybox.