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Drew McLellan has given us all a great gift this year.  His compilation of articles, 24 Ways has an web development article for each day in December leading up to Christmas.  Each one looks good and had I found them sooner, I would have read them all.  Here are some highlights: He descibes how to allow users to edit a page and ...

Brian Crescimanno's Sensible Forms: A Form Usability Checklist presents a logical and thoughtful list of considerations for web form useability.  His best idea may be using CSS to hide fields that have been filled in correctly to allow users to more easily see what information doesn't validate.  My only concern is that ...

Continuing the catch-up theme of the week, here are links to RSS-related resources. allowing readers to take action immediately by Mark Woodman Syndication's Next Wave - presentation notes from Scott Gatz another approach towards linking to feeds by Jeffrey Veen download the feed icon agreed upon by Mozilla and Microsoft

Here's a nice looking method to display different images when links are hovered by Ray Williams.  It doesn't look overly complicated, but should be easily altered and extended, even by someone new to CSS such as myself.

Bill Merikallio and Adam Pratt offer an educational and entertaining exortation on why to not use tables for layout on the web.

Here are some Web 2.0 sites I need to look at when I have more time. Techcrunch ProgrammableWeb.com You're It

Here are some thoughts on improving forms by the guys at ParticleTree.  They also have an interesting suggestion on how to create a combobox for the web.  I took a slightly different approach at work before coming across their suggestion, but it's definately worth a read.

Steven Smith shows how to do unit testing for XHTML Compliance with NUnit and ASP.NET.  Since this isn't integrated into Visual Web Developer, I need to hold on to the link.  It's dissapointing Microsoft doesn't encourage everyone to use standards by keeping this functionality out of its free offerings.

Scott Guthrie has a couple great posts that pull together some excellent resources.  He passes on links to a 5-part series on custom data source controls in ASP.NET 2.0 from MSDN.  There's also a post with a more diverse set of links on how to integrate Google Sitemap with ASP.NET 2.0 sites.

Here's a substantial article on building ASP.NET 2.0 websites with standards.