Web Presentation Patterns

" Patterns structure our lives, whether we think about them or not. A regular bedtime and morning alarm and lunch time makes your life easier by removing some of the guesswork.

Patterns play a part in Web application development, too. Design patterns are standard solutions to common problems in software design. Various patterns have been well documented and allow us to learn and apply a proven methodology for development. It establishes a design vocabulary that can be shared between developers a programming shorthand, as it were ... "

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