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Embrace the ubiquitous ‘Layer Cake Layout’

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Layer Cake Layout—rows spanning the width of the browser, stacked on top of each other and distinguished by background color, line separator or space—arose from the demands of …

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  • Don’t bother with all those title case exceptions
  • Prefer narrative structure to the inverted pyramid
  • Embrace the ubiquitous ‘Layer Cake Layout’

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Kyle HendersonKyle Henderson has been making digital documents for more than 20 years. He’s the creative services manager at UW‑Madison’s Division of Information Technology. He also teaches web classes at Madison College and helped develop its Basic Web Certificate. Kyle is a regular conference and seminar speaker on digital-communication style and method.

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