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| look and feel for all the pages at your site. This way | | | | the cells to become too large. Thus making horizontal |
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| visit various pages. Using stylesheets makes it much | | | | pictures, long words (e.g. long links), predefined text |
| easier to maintain the look and feel of numerous | | | | etc.Don't overuse frames |
| pages.Do use recurring visual elements | | | | Use only a limited number of frames. Always check |
| Repeat visual elements (images, colors, fonts etc.) | | | | if the screen doesn't get crammed if a low resolution |
| on several pages. This will add to a consistent look | | | | screen is used.Do vertical align the content of table |
| and feel.Don't use dark backgrounds | | | | cells |
| Dark backgrounds tend to make text less readable. | | | | You do you use table cells to get your info on the |
| So avoid dark colors or dark backgroundimages. If | | | | right position? Then be sure to align the content |
| you do need them, use a nonserif font for the text | | | | vertically.Don't mix horizontal aligning |
| (like Arial, Universe, Helvetica) and be sure to not to | | | | Mixing centered text and text that's left aligned |
| use a small fontsize.Don't cram your pages | | | | makes a mess of your page. If you want to center |
| A page with text pushed aside against the border | | | | text do it consistently. Exceptions are centering text |
| of a table - or an image - looks awful. Don't cram | | | | of headers or centered text placed in a border.Cyber |
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