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.
- The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard
- Today’s AJAX and DHTML Best Practices
- .mobi Strikes Back
- Don’t Provide an Accessibility Statement
- How to structure large CSS files
- Levels of CSS knowledge
- Click here to read this article
- Preaching: Google is blind!
- Bulletproof HTML: 37 Steps to Perfect Markup
- Is tagging an obligation?
- Web 2.0 Is Reminiscent Of Marx
- Source Order, Skip links and Structural labels
- Skip Link Pros and Cons
- Designing for Dyslexics: Part 1 of 3
- Designing for Dyslexics: Part 2 of 3
- Designing for Dyslexics: Part 3 of 3
- All Feeded Up
- An Open letter to John Warnock
- Light text on dark background vs. readability
- Five Simple Steps to designing with colour
- Five Simple Steps to designing with colour part 2: A few basics
- IE7: Were they ready?
- Five days / five heatmaps
- Bring me problems, not solutions
- 8 steps to serving better (X)HTML
- Introducing Microformats Search and Pingerati
- Introduction to Microformats
- Have Your Say about the Future of HTML
- 12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards
- Making Popular Layout Decisions
- Star HTML and Microsoft IE7
- To Hell with WCAG 2
- Web Standards and The New Professionalism
- Browser size does matter – Actual numbers
- Actual Browser Sizes (final)
- Optimal width for 1024px resolution?
- Accessibility of CAPTCHA
- Using the title Attribute
- Label Placement in Forms
- Yahoo! User Interface Library
- Information Architecture 3.0
- Web 3.0
- Where Visual Design Meets Usability – An Interview with Luke Wroblewski, Part I
- Where Visual Design Meets Usability – An Interview with Luke Wroblewski, Part II
- How to Plan Manpower on a Web Team
- Tagging vs. Cataloging: What It’s All About
- Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture
- Have Your Say about the Future of HTML
- The future of HTML, Part 2: XHTML 2.0
- Why Your Web App Sucks
- 10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website
Nice. Found a few new interesting topics.
Glad I could help.
Great list. Thanks for featuring our IE7: Were they ready and Five days / Five heatmaps studies!
Simon: I should be the one to say thanks.
Thanks for the links to a couple of my articles! Interesting to see what you liked!
Great list and definately a few there I’ve missed – so thanks for sharing
Steve: Glad you found a few gems
Robert: Thanks, hopefully I´ll see some more ones next year from you.
Great collection of articles! This is perfect for lazy laptop-in-couch-reading over Christmas. Good stuff. Huge thanks for collecting this.
Oh… And merry Christmas!!
Jimmy: Thanks, and Merry Christmas to you.
U’ve got good pics, the site could use a tiny bit of work (no offense) its still awesome
Thanks. The site can always be better, let me know what you think more in detail and I’ll see what I can come up with.