In web design, one of the most important elements involved with providing the client with a website that their customers/audience are going to really spend time at is pay attention to something known as ‘user experience’. This is simply the study of what the user of a website goes through (or experiences) when they visit said website. Today we are going to talk about how to apply some lessons of user experience to our website through the layout of our content.

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Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is something that is of great importance to web designers (or at least should be, haha). It determines whether or not your new website will even be found on the web! What good is a great looking website if nobody ever comes across it? It goes without saying that as web designers, we should be focusing on SEO to ensure our clients are getting the attention they need, and the same for ourselves.

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There are several different CSS frameworks available that all employ a very useful grid system. This allows a person to make column based layouts that are evenly spaced and very clean looking. While some prefer not to use CSS frameworks, none can deny their ability to greatly increase production time on lengthy projects. Here we will be comparing a few different CSS frameworks to determine which may be the best for you.

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So I’ve recently began messing around more with CSS3, and HTML5, mainly to acquaint myself with the new syntax, and just the differing process of building in HTML5. Along the way, I’ve noticed a few differences that could be very useful to SEO! Particularly the way different areas of the web page can now be identified as, thanks to tags such as “header”, “article”, “aside”, “nav”, etc. This opens up a few possibilities for us, and also allows us to drop a couple work-arounds that we used to use!

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I began with CSS at a very early age, and being so young and without any sort of class or teacher to assist me, I made a lot of mistakes along the way. CSS has grown in a huge way since then and is still continuing to advance now with CSS3 and all it’s new features on the way. Regardless though, I have learned some very important lessons when it comes to writing CSS. Here are the most important ones I’ve learned to date.

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