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Whether you are feeling confident, second-guessing yourself, or somewhere in between; you should always utilize the tools of SEO and Analytics to make your site great.

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Our chat assignment this week was to read and provide pros and cons related to Chairman Pai’s proposal to dismantle Net Neutrality.  All this without becoming political:  pretty difficult to do.

First an understanding of what Net Neutrality is with the following Wikipedia entry:  “Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers must treat all data on the Internet the same, and not discriminate or charge differently by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or method of communication.  For instance, under these principles, internet service providers are unable to intentionally block, slow down or charge money for specific websites and online content.”

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If you were asked, “what objects are in a well-designed page?” You would probably identify the obvious:   color, type and icons.   However, there is one very important visual component that some overlook as an actual component:  space.

I recently read “Space in Design Systems: From Basics to Expanded Concepts to Apply Space with Intent” by Nathan Curtis.  In this article, Nathan proves this point by comparing the amount of of color, size, type, layout, and nine other properties use to the use of space.  His results show that space and color are the two most used components used exponentially more than any other components and are very close in occurrence percentage.

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