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Optimizing Mobile Forms for More Conversions—and a Competitive Advantage

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About 80–90% of smartphone use occurs in portrait orientation, which makes width a precious commodity: There’s more vertical space, and vertical scrolling is more intuitive. That gap in time-to-completion is almost certainly greater on mobile devices, which prioritize vertical scrolling. Aspect ratio. Multi-step forms.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. Serifs are used to guide the horizontal “flow” of the eyes; The lack of serifs is said to contribute to a vertical stress in sans serifs, which is supposed to compete with the horizontal flow of reading ( De Lange et al.,

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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If they use Haml, are they ignorant of HTML? But that might be too much for you to understand.Net (CRL) can run everything from Python, PHP, C#, Ruby and even languages out of your “standard” code-to-render-random-html like F# and Scala down to even C++ integrated in a way that no other platform supports. Matt Sherman.

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