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Design Basics : Consistency - If contrast gives your designs visual excitement, consistency makes your viewers feel at home

Good Sites: Design Consistency - In order to have good designs, you will need consistency.

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Grids: Consistency & Unity - Tying Elements of a Page Design Together with Grids

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Modular Web Design - Design work is hard. Producing a good site takes a lot of time and effort. Actually, with a large site it may take forever unless you apply the powerful concept of modular design, that is, designing out of standard modules.

Provide Comfort for Readers with Repetition - Readers gain comfort from having certain elements repeat themselves at consistent intervals or in the same position.

Repetition & Contrast - FOUR BASIC DESIGN PRINCIPLES can make any handout, brochure, or web page more professional-looking, unified, easy to follow, and inviting to your readers.

Web Design - Consistency - Make sure your site is a unity. It must be clear to a visitor he is still at the same site. When he clicks a link, he must recognize the connecting page as yours. It must resemble the previous one. The best would obviously be that he recognizes your style, if he happens to accidentally encounters one of your pages. Causing him to think: hey, I have been here before, this is that wonderful site about --- fill in the blank yourself.

Web Style Guide - Consistency - Web design consistency

Yale Style Manual : Consistency- Consistency gives polish to a site and encourages visitors to stay by establishing an expectation on the structure of a text

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