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Pick of the blogs 2005

The blog I want to pick is not technically a blog I mean it was only a 24 days blog and I think you all knew it now, yes it is 24 Ways I learned a lot on those 24 days, thanks to Drew McLellan, for coming up with this great idea to collect fresh techniques from the minds of well know designers, developers & authors in one place, I learned a lot of new things, specially from those articles

• Easy Ajax with Prototype
• Practical Microformats with hCard
• Centered Tabs with CSS
• Putting the World into "World Wide Web"
• The Attribute Selector for Fun and (no ad) Profit
• Introduction to Scriptaculous Effects
• Avoiding CSS Hacks for Internet Explorer
• Debugging CSS with the DOM Inspector

Thanks Drew McLellan and thanks for all the writers of those great articles.

Pick of the design 2005

Well it's not an easy pick I've been thinking about this for a long time will it be Stopdesign the magnificent design that I always adored, or Coudal Partners the incredibly simple elegant design, or maybe ribic.org that rocked the reboot zone with it's new stylish layout and perfect balance of colors, all those designs are really great and impressive but the design that I will pick this year is Vivabit, great layout, great logo, great colors every thing is perfect and above all that and what is really impressive is that it's liquid layout, with all this kind of complexity in the layout it's totally liquid.

Pick of the books Speeches 2005

Please allow me to replace the pick of the books with the pick of the speeches as I haven't got the opportunity to read most of the books this year, but I had the opportunity to listen and see slides of most of the conferences done this year. I enjoyed WE05 starting with the impressive keynote of Molly State of the Web, 2005 passing by Tantek's, Veen's, Meyer's, Goto's, Doug's and a lot of other great speeches, I also enjoyed d.construct and I was tracking it minute by minute for the whole 2 days, there were all great speeches and I learned great new things from all of them but Andy budd's presentation What is web 2.0? was great as it comes in a time were there was a lot of misunderstanding about what is web 2.0, but despite I liked Andy's presentation very much, I'm willing to pick another speech it's a speech from WE05 by one man I highly respect and who inspires me a lot, he is Tantek Çelik for his speech Microformats: Evolving the Web to explain why I picked this specific speech and how this speech opened my mind to things I never had imagined before, it doesn't need another post, it needs another bunch of posts, Thanks Tantek.

Special Achievement Award 2005

As for the special achievement award, I would like to give it to 37 Signals for their achievements regarding web 2.0 by creating Ruby on Rails framework and a lot of great web 2.0 apps, I would like to give it also to Jesse James Garrett for Ajax, but I will give it to a company that helps turning web users from readers to writers, from observers to contributers I will give it to Google for there efforts on Blogger the platform that let blogging easy and free for any one, and they also deserve the award for their brilliant decision in letting Douglas Bowman handle the design process.

I hope and I'm sure year 2007 2006 will be a bigger year for the web, it's really an exciting time to be a web designer. Thanks all for making the web a better place and wish you all good luck.