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Design Conventions - A Good Idea?


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Even while searching for innovative ways to make their websites work, new designers should follow established design conventions. These conventions have evolved along with the Internet, and users expect web pages to function in a certain way.
If there were only a few websites, designers could expect visitors to spend time learning how to navigate their [...]