Repetition Is Everywhere

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The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. You wake up. You sleep. Repetition is natural.

Great web design relies on repetition. Web design means designing everything about a website, including the layout, content structure, navigation, and code structure.

If every page has a different structure, that is a sign of a bad design. For example, every post has a different page structure. At one post, the page does not have an email address. On another post, the email is available in the header. On another post, the email is in the footer. That is a messy website.

Repetition in web design is everywhere. For example, HTML is based on repetition. You need to keep writing <html> and <body> on every page. CSS relies on repetition, too.

Repetition in web development is needed and does not make you crazy.

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