In this session, Aaron Gustafson will introduce you to Web Standards Sherpa, a new resource from the Web Standards Project. The goal of Web Standards Sherpa is to "provide helpful, pragmatic and up-to-date advice on best practices for web professionals everywhere" via brief, focused instructional critiques of existing websites (most of which are submitted for critique by the site's audience). Aaron will introduce you to the people behind the website and walk through some of the ways the site distills the best practices discussed into digestible tidbits that you can put to use right away.

1. Is That a Sherpa
on Your Shoulder?
Aaron Gustafson
Group Manager, The Web Standards Project
Principal, Easy Designs LLC

2. What
happened
to WaSP?

3. We started out by
spreading the word to
anyone who’d listen.

4. We led browser
upgrade campaigns.

5. We took browsers to
task for their sins
against web standards.

6. We goaded software
developers into
embracing standards.

7. In many ways you could
say we won the battle
over web standards.

8. So why are so many
web sites still built
without using
web standards?

9. We’ve been preaching
to the converted.

10. There are a lot
of people we
haven’t reached.

11. But we want
to change that.

12. interact.webstandards.org

13. biz.webstandards.org
(coming soon)

15. “ Web Standards Sherpa’s experts
provide helpful, pragmatic and
up-to-date advice on best practices
for web professionals everywhere.

16. “ Web Standards Sherpa’s experts
provide helpful, pragmatic and
up-to-date advice on best practices
for web professionals everywhere.

17. Limit your usage to t wo fonts (three at
the absolute most) to help viewers
focus on the words, not how many
different fonts are saying them.

18. Good design, when it’s done well,
becomes invisible. It’s only when it’s
done poorly that we notice it.

24. 1 issue a week.

25. high quality.

26. it’s ambitious.

27. Our Sponsors

28. Our Partners

29. webstandardssherpa.com

30. Thank you.
Aaron Gustafson
aaron-gustafson.com
slideshare.net/aarongustafson
The Web Standards Project
webstandards.org
Easy Designs LLC
easy-designs.net