As I cracked open The Shape of Design, Frank Chimero's treatise on the fundamentals of design, I realized that he was the design professor I always wished I'd had. Diving into his prose felt like sitting in my favorite class and eagerly wrapping myself up in the idyllic, poetic, passionate words of a wise, insightful man.
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I am not a web designer. I may have a graphic design background, but when it comes to the Internet, my knowledge of its inner workings is somewhat lacking. Sure, I know a little HTML and can hack away at CSS to get my website to do what I want [kinda], and sure, I spend most of my time on the Internet, but I leave the tough stuff to the people who really know what they're doing. Then I found The Manual, and I learned more than I thought I would.
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