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I have just read a book about typography, Thinking With Type by Ellen Lupton. This book is not only about offering solutions to designers about their basic challenges. It’s also very useful for advertising people to form the strategy of the most effective prints, magazine copies, and of course web sites.

For instance, it says that, web designers should think in “linear terms” wherever possible, and to make sure their table makes sense when read in continuous sequence. Accessible Web sites also consider needs of users working older software or text-only browsers. Linear thinking helps not only non-sighted audiences but also the users of cell phones, hand-held digital appliances, and other devices where space is tight and text is dominant.

One of my inference after reading Thinking With Type is that; Web should provide all people, regardless of physical or technological readiness, with access to information. And, one more thing; between years an en dash (-) should be used, not an em dash (–). 1914-1918 is the correct way to write.