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Website Conventions: Why Breaking the Rules Breaks Your Website

Posted on May 16, 2025May 16, 2025 Website Conventions | UX Design

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The Day I First Learned to “Stay in the Grid” My first job out of college was in an art department—before desktop publishing, when layout meant actual paste-up. We worked with X-Acto knives, wax machines, and non-repro blue pencils. Columns weren’t something you dragged on a screen—they were drawn by hand, measured precisely with a […]

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