About me and 456 Berea Street
Personal stuff
This site is developed and authored by me, Roger Johansson. I’m a Swedish web professional living in Göteborg (Gothenburg) on the west coast of Sweden. I’ve been working professionally with the web and other interactive media since 1994.
The site
This site is called 456 Berea Street in honour of an address I used to live on in the early 1980's. It's a place for me to post articles, tutorials, and comments on subjects that are interesting and useful to me and hopefully to other web professionals, both developers and designers. Most articles on this site are related to web standards, accessibility, or usability in one way or another, with the occasional article on other subjects.
The current 456 Berea Street design was not created by myself, but by my extremely talented Belgian designer friend Veerle Pieters. And no, the design is not a "theme" you can download and use.
Kaffesnobben is another blog of mine. It’s all about coffee. And it’s all in Swedish. But do check it out.
Consulting
I’m currently working as a front-end web developer at NetRelations, a web consultancy in Göteborg, Sweden. My main focus there is the same as on this site: web standards, accessibility, and usability. Note that any opinions expressed on this site are my personal opinions, and not necessarily shared by my employer.
I’m available for consulting. NetRelations can help you with standards-based redesign, modern front-end development, accessibility evaluations, courses in web standards and accessibility, and more. Sound interesting? Use our contact form and let us know what you need our help with. Note: The messages posted through that contact form are not sent to me personally.
Technology
This site is built on a solid foundation of valid HTML 4.01 Strict styled with CSS. In case you are using a tool like the HTML validator extension it may display a whole bunch of warnings. Those warnings are caused by the invalid code inserted by Google AdSense, and unfortunately I can’t do anything about it. If you check any page on this site with the W3C HTML Validator there should be no errors.
The publishing system I use is Movable Type, version 2.65. I also use a whole bunch of plugins: Acronym, CatEntries, Markdown, MT-Blacklist, MTEntryIfComments, Regex, SimpleComments, SmartyPants, MTStripControlChars, and probably a few more that I have forgotten about.
Hosting
This site is hosted by lopnet.se, a small but excellent hosting company in Sweden. I highly recommend them to my Swedish visitors. Tell them you heard about them from me and you’ll get a nice discount.
If you are outside of Sweden, I’ve heard enough good things about DreamHost to feel that I can safely recommend them. If you decide to sign up for a DreamHost account, use the promo code 456BEREASTREET3 and save USD 20.
Accessibility
Accessibility regardless of disability or equipment is very important to me. There is more accessibility info in my accessibility statement.
There is a high contrast, single column, large type layout available. It is a bit experimental at the moment, but please do try it out and let me know what you think. A link to switch between the high contrast and normal stylesheets is available on each page, in the page header. Please note that your browser needs to accept cookies for the high contrast layout to persist as you navigate through the site.
Switch to high contrast layout.
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Contact
If you have any comments on this site or any of my entries, or any questions you want to ask me, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
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