Guido Smeets: front-end developer
About me
I am a front-end developer who makes great looking accessible websites. I specialise in CSS, XHTML, jQuery, web standards, usability and accessibility. But I love to dabble with snippets of PHP/AJAX from time-to-time.
I'm co-founder of, and currently working at, FinWize. Further more i'm helping out friends at 51North from time to time with all kinds of front-end issues.
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I am front-end developer and webdesigner living and working in Maastricht, Netherlands
Latest Project: Yes I Cannes
xthml, css, wordpress / 51North prev next
For our client VEA we developed a new website for the event "Cannes Lions Festival". VEA and VCP gave away 10 entrance passes for this event to creative people within their companies. These people report on their own creative way what's happening on the event on this website. As back-end for this project we used wordpress.
Blog: XHTML and target _blank
Development, jQuery / Finwize
99% of the website that I code are in XHTML 1.0 Strict. And as many of you will know this sharpens the rules of what tags and attributes you can use in your XHTML document. One of the things that isn't allowed in the strict version is the target _blank attribute.
For those who don't know, when using target _blank inside a link the link will open in a new window.
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