2008 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, semantics, ID & UX 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 63 list of best articles 2008 in no specific order, thank you all for a great year.
- The Aurora concept
- The Google Chrome Comic
- Static Maps API Developer’s Guide
- Swedish National Guidelines for Public Sector Websites in danger?
- Introduction to WCAG Samurai errata for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0
- Wrangling Widgets
- User-Centered Design and Usability: Its Role in a Project
- Opera Web Standards Curriculum
- Introducing Ubiquity
- Yahoo Stencil Kit
- Yahoo Search BOSS
- BluePrintCSS
- Introducing Geode
- Thoughts on developing with the Adobe AIR framework
- Do we really need Microformats?
- Interface Developers have to be available from start to end in a project (and work with real live code)
- Favorite terms about web developers
- Should we continue to use relative units vs. relying on page zooming?
- State of the accessible web 2008
- Hammerhead: moving performance testing upstream
- Project:Possibility
- State of Performance 2008
- Follow the 10 ground rules, or fail on the web
- 5 Exciting Things to Look Forward to in HTML 5
- Top 10 Web Platforms of 2008
- Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies
- WCAG 2.0 is a W3C Recommendation
- Introduction to WAI ARIA
- Grid design basics: Grids for Web page layouts
- Flexible Fuel: Educating the Client on IA
- Getting Real About Agile Design
- Understanding Progressive Enhancement
- Writing an Interface Style Guide
- Contrast and Meaning
- Art Directing with Looking Room
- Contract Killer
- A Festive Type Folly
- Fonts and the Web
- Javascript in Modern Web Design
- SEO Guide for Designers
- @font-face in IE: Making Web Fonts Work
- Display Type & the Raster Wars
- Preparing for HTML5 with Semantic Class Names
- Clarify. Simplify. Implement.
- How Web is different from print
- 11 Expert Tips For Enhancing The User Login Process
- Reddit’s Flawed CAPTCHA: Adding Insult To Injury
- wp-Hyphenate 1.07 beta
- Migrating from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0
- Yahoo! OpenID Usability Research
- JavaScript and screen readers
- 10 Easy Steps to Great Website Optimization
- Why Verbs?
- The linguistic command line
- 10 Futuristic User Interfaces
- 10 Amazing Visualizations of Social Networks
- Explaining Web 1.0, Web 2.0 & Web 3.0
- Where to Find Open Data on the Web
- TimThumb PHP Script Released
- The Best Tools for Visualization
- Prototyping with XHTML
- Quick Turnaround Usability Testing
- Search Behavior Patterns
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