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2006 is coming to an end and it has really been a great year, so many great articles and blog posts about XHTML, CSS, design, accessibility, usability and other things related to the web. So if you haven’t read the articles in this list you really should, they are the top of tops, the cream de la cream.

Here are my top 51 list of best articles 2006 in no specific order.

1. The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard
2. Today’s AJAX and DHTML Best Practices
   
3. .mobi Strikes Back
   
4. Don’t Provide an Accessibility Statement
5. How to structure large CSS files
6. Levels of CSS knowledge
7. Click here to read this article
8. Preaching: Google is blind!
9. Bulletproof HTML: 37 Steps to Perfect Markup
10. Is tagging an obligation?
11. Web 2.0 Is Reminiscent Of Marx
12. Source Order, Skip links and Structural labels
13. Skip Link Pros and Cons
14. Designing for Dyslexics: Part 1 of 3
15. Designing for Dyslexics: Part 2 of 3
16. Designing for Dyslexics: Part 3 of 3
17. All Feeded Up
18. An Open letter to John Warnock
19. Light text on dark background vs. readability
20. Five Simple Steps to designing with colour
21. Five Simple Steps to designing with colour part 2: A few basics
22. IE7: Were they ready?
23. Five days / five heatmaps
24. Bring me problems, not solutions
25. 8 steps to serving better (X)HTML
26. Introducing Microformats Search and Pingerati
27. Introduction to Microformats
28. Have Your Say about the Future of HTML
29. 12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards
30. Making Popular Layout Decisions
31. Star HTML and Microsoft IE7
32. To Hell with WCAG 2
33. Web Standards and The New Professionalism
34. Browser size does matter – Actual numbers
35. Actual Browser Sizes (final)
36. Optimal width for 1024px resolution?
37. Accessibility of CAPTCHA
38. Using the title Attribute
39. Label Placement in Forms
40. Yahoo! User Interface Library
41. Information Architecture 3.0
42. Web 3.0
43. Where Visual Design Meets Usability – An Interview with Luke Wroblewski, Part I
44. Where Visual Design Meets Usability – An Interview with Luke Wroblewski, Part II
45. How to Plan Manpower on a Web Team
46. Tagging vs. Cataloging: What It’s All About
47. Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture
48. Have Your Say about the Future of HTML
49. The future of HTML, Part 2: XHTML 2.0
50. Why Your Web App Sucks
51. 10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website

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