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Best of Wisdump

Wisdump has gone through many changes over the years, and you may have missed many of its greatest content. We’ve put them together here for your easy perusal.

2009

  • IE6 falls; XHTML2 cancelled.
  • Markup debates: rank priorities, code accordingly
  • Browser wars update: Firefox is up, IE is down, Google dumps IE6

2008

  • Really? Everything I Know About CSS Is Wrong?
  • Design View meets Political View, Andy Rutledge style
  • Breaking news: HTML5 will be ready by the year 2022
  • Campaigns to kill the web browser that just won’t die: Internet Explorer 6
  • Do you still use URLs? Normal people no longer do
  • Opera teaches good web design with its Web Standards Curriculum
  • Moving forward with CSS
  • A “website designed by…” link is like a Louis Vuitton monogram
  • The Inspiration that is Twitter
  • Feed Awareness (or the lack thereof)
  • Standardizing Icons for the Web
  • On Being Critical

2007

  • Designers: How do you value your name in the footer?
  • WordPress.com to offer Theme Marketplace, and why I’ll be on it
  • The Pornography Of Information Design
  • Better Content through Better Navigation
  • The Ethics Of Outsourcing Web Development
  • Motion Typography: 4 Approaches To Kinetic Text
  • Comparing the top 4 mini-blog options
  • Make your Posts more enjoyable to Read
  • The Revolution of Inclusive Design
  • How One Badly Chosen Picture Can Ruin A Great Concept
  • The Age Card: Snakes and Ladders
  • The Ebb and Flow of Social Networking
  • Can you just ‘build’ a web application?
  • Ego, Being A Man, and Opening Your Eyes
  • Rhetoric & Design – Introduction
  • Putting Up The For Sale Sign
  • The Same Daily Routine
  • In The Future, Everyone Is A Social Network
  • My Failures
  • Why Blog Networks Failed
  • We Love Decentralization, We Hate Decentralization
  • Working With the Best
  • 4 Reasons Why Your Web 2.0 Company Should Die
  • RSS Will Not Make the Mainstream

2006

  • Top 7 Freshest Designs of 2006
  • Fuck Deadlines
  • Web 3.0 Can Wait
  • Why Your Web App Sucks
  • Me-Tooism and Job Boards
  • Top 10 Web 2.0 Winners
  • Top 10 Web 2.0 Losers
  • Blogging Killed The Experts
  • The People Web
  • Women 2.0
  • The Fallacy of Web 2.0
  • Designers’ Egos
  • Programming is an Art
  • Learning CSS
  • Redesigning? Give Your Old Template to the Masses
  • Benefits of Removing ‘www’ From Your URL
  • Being 37signals for free
  • With Great Power Comes More Power
  • 7 steps to a good company name
  • 8 web design warm fuzzy feelings
  • Ugly Design Getting Too Much Credit
  • Can You Afford Not To Blog?
  • Learning Design: Emulate or Challenge
  • The Importance of a Cool Nickname

2005

  • Big, Beautiful, Dumb
  • The Truth is Whatever You Make It
  • Bypassing Prejudice
  • Flock Never Stood A Chance
  • Fear Is A Good Thing
  • Boom 2.0
  • Elements of Web Design: The Message
  • What Design Means To Me
  • MySpace: Is ‘ghetto’ a design choice?
  • Being the Hype
  • Podcasting: But, but, Odeo is so damn pretty…
  • Master or Jack?
  • Freelancing Traits
  • Successful Design
  • Knowledge Portfolio
  • Yahoo! Gets Design…Finally
  • Can You Do Design For Your Whole Life?
  • Creating the 9rules Logo

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Design In-Flight April 2005 Issue