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Welcome to CSS Wizardry
Welcome to the all new CSS Wizardry. I am Harry Roberts — a 19 year old web developer living and working in Leeds. ‘Work’ is the award winning Sense Internet (Yorkshire’s best, no less) where I work on a range of projects, dealing with design and development with particular focus on acccessibility, semantics, usability, clean, xHTML and CSS and more recently grids and typography.
After having a number of problems with my old blog (flat-file sucks) I decided to overhaul CSS Wizardry all together, and drop the blog completely. I have archived the more important posts. It is now also much easier to access items such as Typogridphy, and Web Design+.
Latest Works
Message to Santa
Message to Santa was a fun little project I completed along with the wonderfully talented Megan Smith, an extremely gifted illustrator.
Message to Santa was released just in time for Christmas ’08 and took off pretty well, with hundreds of kids (and quite a few adults) writing present lists to the man himself. It was coded and built by me, with Megan supplying all the cute illustration work. It is fully accesssibile and built with semantic and valid markup and CSS. We’re hoping to expand next year and add some more functionality.
Web Design+
Web Design+ is my latest project: a guide on developing accessible, semantic websites using the most efficient and accessible solutions available.
Web Design+ was released to some pretty good reviews. Web Design+ is, in no particular order, an amalgamation of web-standards solutions for common web development issues and problems — a way to tackle development in the cleanest, most accessible and semantic way possible. By using Web Design+, the aim is to standardise practices throughout an organisation; from accessibility to hacks, Web Design+ covers the best ways to tackle a variety of dev problems.
2009 Calendar
I decided to make my own 2009 calendar this year, set in Helvetica and based round a tight grid, I think it looks pretty cool. I also got one printed for my wall which looks even better. Download a PDF version of the calendar to print out for yourself.
Typogridphy
Typogridphy is an open-source CSS framework that I made for developers to use to quickly create grid layouts with strong typography. It uses standards compliant xHTML, and validate CSS and is incredibly lightweight. Based on the 960 Grid System, it caters for a variety of different applications as either a discreet underlay or — as it is on the test page — a structured grid system.