All in the <head> — Ponderings and code by Drew McLellan

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Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is <span class="title">Director and Senior Web Developer</span> at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://edgeofmyseat.com/" class="org url">edgeofmyseat.com</a> in <span class="adr"><a class="region" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead">Maidenhead</a>, <span class="country-name">UK</span> (<span class="geo">GEO: <span class="latitude">51.5217</span>, <span class="longitude">-0.7177</span></span>)</span>. Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Caburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.</p> <p>Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and is currently Group Lead for <a class="url" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://webstandards.org/">The Web Standards Project</a>. He has had articles published by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://alistapart.com/">A List Apart</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://adobe.com/">Adobe</a>, and O’Reilly Media’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://xml.com/">XML.com</a>, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://microformats.org/">microformats</a> movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://allinthehead.com/" rel="me self" class="url">all in the head</a> and, with a little help from his friends, at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://24ways.org/" rel="me" class="url">24 ways</a>.</p> </div> </div> <div class="recommended"> <h4>Recommended</h4> <ul> <li class="vcard"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/" rel="friend met co-worker sweetheart" class="fn url">Rachel Andrew</a></li> <li class="vcard"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://fberriman.com/" rel="friend met colleague" class="fn url">Frances Berriman</a></li> <li class="vcard"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://www.boagworld.com/" rel="friend met colleague" class="fn url">Paul Boag</a></li> <li class="vcard"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://www.markboulton.co.uk/" rel="friend met colleague" class="fn url">Mark Boulton</a></li> <li class="vcard"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://www.andybudd.com/" rel="friend met colleague" class="fn url">Andy Budd</a></li> <li class="vcard"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/" rel="friend met colleague" class="fn url">Andy Clarke</a></li> <li class="vcard"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://www.colly.com/" rel="friend met colleague" class="fn url">Simon Collison</a></li> <li class="vcard"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://notes.natbat.net/" rel="friend met colleague" class="fn url">Natalie Downe</a></li> <li class="vcard"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://dean.edwards.name/" rel="friend met colleague" class="fn url">Dean Edwards</a></li> <li class="vcard"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://hicksdesign.co.uk/" rel="friend colleague met" class="fn url">Jon Hicks</a></li> <li class="vcard"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://adactio.com/" rel="friend met colleague" class="fn url">Jeremy Keith</a></li> <li class="vcard"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://www.kryogenix.org/" rel="friend met colleague" class="fn url">Stuart Langridge</a></li> <li class="vcard"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://clagnut.com/" rel="friend met colleague" class="fn url">Richard Rutter</a></li> <li class="vcard"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://www.donotremove.co.uk/" rel="friend met colleague" class="fn url">Mike Stenhouse</a></li> <li class="vcard"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://danwebb.net/" rel="friend met colleague" class="fn url">Dan Webb</a></li> <li class="vcard"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://simonwillison.net/" rel="friend met colleague" class="fn url">Simon Willison</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li class="vcard"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516025243/http://hackdiary.com/" rel="friend colleague met" class="fn url">Matt Biddulph</a></li> <li class="vcard"><a href="http

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