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December, 2006


24
Dec 06

Have a good one

Just have fun, eat a lot and I´ll see you on the other side. And don´t sit up reading too many blogs now, be with your family instead.


17
Dec 06

Top 51 articles you must have read 2006

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

13
Dec 06

Happy Christmas from Flickr

Flickr, the photo sharing service have gone Christmas crazy and upgraded their service, now the come with:

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11
Dec 06

Akismet for WordPress

Just to let everyone know. The one and only spam killer for WordPress has been updated.


11
Dec 06

What is xbody?

I got a spam today in my email, they had put a bunch of HTML in the subject, not sure why they did that but by a coincient I saw a HTML tag that I have never seen before, the xbody tag. What is that? Is that just bogus or what? I search for xbody + HTML and found a bunch of stuff, mostly similar to my mail. So, anyone knows?


8
Dec 06

WordPress and Opera mini

Just to let everyone know. Posting an article on WordPress with Opera mini 3.0 works great. I’m posting this from my sofa with a QTEK mobile phone. Nerdy, I know. So if you ever feel the need to post anything on your blog when sitting somewhere deep into the forest, know you have your chance. This is really extreme mobile blogging.