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The Avenue Designers site has a clean design that highlights the typical aspects of a web design business. Its straightforward organization of the content compliments the simple yet effective design of the site. This results in a favourable experience for the user in terms of easily finding the necessary information.

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A great deal has been written about semantic markup and its importance. Some of this material has been written by purists who defend semantics because they like the logic and structure that semantic markup can convey. That’s all very well and good, but what does semantic markup mean? And what practical usage does it have?

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Web designer Joshua Kendall’s LiveLoveAutumnFall blog is a solidly constructed web site. It’s clear right away that the developer has paid attention to a number of accessibility details — forms are conscientiously provided with :focus and :hover states, the code is (mostly) semantic and the design is simple enough to provide minimal distraction.

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We recently made a font selector for this site to offer visitors the option of changing the type-face to something they’re more comfortable with. This font selector was made with a PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) script which, unlike JavaScript, is a server-side utility meaning users don’t need to have any special add-ons or plugins for their browser to use it. We figured you might like to know how we made it in case you want to employ such a thing on your site.

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