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If you’re not a regular listener of the Boagworld weekly web design / development podcast then you need to subscribe to it. They’ve had a month off and are back with episode 116 and a new site redesign - don’t mention the cows because its the part Paul didn’t design and everyone mentions it. They also provide a full written transcript on their podcast page. And don’t mention Paul’s new way of referencing his supporting links in the podcast (in human non-friendly terms), we’re all smarter than that right. Ha ha.

Seriously, if you’re a professional in this industry this is a staple of your diet. Get to it.

With a list of 35 Source Code Editors to experiment with it would be nice to see statements on web sites saying - No WYSIWYG’s woken for this site. Real designers understand the code.

Luke Wroblewski’s new book Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks is published by Rosenfeld Media and available in paperback or digital. Its also on my must read list for 2008.

Starting with CSS and bug fixing tips are a great set of resources on best practice XHTML and CSS practices. Veerle has put together an impressive list of high quality tutorials.

HTML 5 Alternative Text, and Authoring Tools discusses the deeper issues involved with the HTML 5 Working Group’s conversation about alternative text. I’ve never agreed it should be optional for authoring tools and totally agree with Gez. Particularly the section on research. What’s to research? Why should the uninterested tail be wagging the web standards horse?

I have an idea… why don’t we let Flickr worry about its own business model and ability to provide compliant software? Just a thought for the working group.

Do we really need microformats? Robert Nyman is saying what a lot of us have been whispering about microformats for a long time - bulky non-semantic code riddled with excessive spans. Very good points all of them. Are you using microformats?

Andy Clarke’s Microformats: The Fine Art of Markup.

Design Coding from Poetic Prophet - SEO Rapper has put another dimension to the education of best practice website development. Who would have thought web standards, accessibility and usability would make it to the Rap scene?