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: UCI Road World Championships
xthml, css, javascript, ajax / 51North prev next
For our client Provincie Limburg we developed a new website for the UCI Road World Championships at 51North. On this project I was responsible for the front-end of the website. I've created the XHTML and CSS and implemented user interaction events with the jQuery library.
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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