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Unordered/Ordered Lists
Unorderd lists are recommened to be used with a list of items where order is irrelevant. With unordered lists (and all lists actually) the W3C discourage authors from using lists purely as a means of indenting text. This is a stylistic issue and is properly handled by style sheets.
Ordered lists on the other hand are encouraged to be used when order matters for the list elements, example: A cooking recipe or turn-by-turn directions. For the examples in this article it is possible to substitute an ol for a ul or vice-versa. That choice is left to your discretion.
In it’s simplest form an ordered list or unordered list (referred to going forward interchangably as ‘a list’) would contain similar markup to the following:
Typography can be one of the most creatively rewarding parts of web design, but it can also be one of the most frustrating. Working with just one or two fonts can be challenging enough for most web designers, yet some still insist on using three, four, seven, or even more fonts in their designs. Some people excel at creating sites with complicated typography, while others fail miserably. Read on to find out tricks to creating fantastic website designs with complicated type, as well as some great examples of sites that get it right, and those that get it wrong.
1. Pay attention to scale and proportion.
Multiple fonts work best together when they have similar proportion and scale. For example, Georgia and Verdana have similar shapes, even though one is serif and one is sans serif. The same could be said for Times New Roman and Arial Narrow. Look at specific characters in each font to see how similar they are, as well as entire words.
Fonts don’t necessarily have to be identical in scale and proportion. What you want to look for are either fonts that are very, very similar, or fonts that are very, very different. Fonts that are “kind of the same” are generally going to look strangest when placed near each other. Fonts that are very similar are going to appear to have the same weight on screen in most cases, while fonts that are very different can more easily be played against one another to give emphasis to specific parts of the site.
