Kimberly Blessing

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Biography

Kimberly Blessing

Kimberly Blessing is a Web developer, standards evangelist, and technology executive who has worked with numerous organizations to successfully make the transition to Web standards. She has worked with large companies (AOL, PayPal, Comcast) and small start-ups and non-profits, training teams in coding techniques and new processes to make the adoption of standards a smooth one.

Kimberly has also taken her standards experience and knowledge to numerous conferences (SXSW, WebVisions, An Event Apart), the classroom (Bryn Mawr College), and shared it in a book: Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites. She has served on the W3C CSS Working Group and is a member and former group lead of The Web Standards Project.

Presentation

Beyond Web Standards: Crafting Design and Development Standards

Online strategy, Conference Day #1, Wednesday May 5th, 4.00 pm - 5.00 pm

When we talk about Web standards, we discuss coding for compliance, portability, and accessibility—but Web standards alone won't give you a quality user experience. Any time you collaborate on a Web site, some additional design and development standards must be crafted and followed in order to achieve consistency, both from a code and a design perspective. Join Kimberly Blessing, a professional standards manager, to learn how companies big and small develop internal standards and best practices to help manage the work generated by designers and developers.