proximity

=__**Proximity**__=

Proximity refers to objects (such as texts, images, diagrams etc.) being close to each other. This means that topics related to with one another will be grouped together, by centering, spacing, and reducing line skipping. Whenever items are close to each other, they seem to have a relationship between one another.
 * 1. Definition**

Proximity is a thing that is more important than things such as alignment, repetition or contrast. Whenever someone visits a site, they most likely want to look at the information listed and move onto the next site. If proximity is not seen in a website, the person will not be able to take in the information as fast as he possibly could. Often, this could cause less views on the website in the future because of the long period of time it takes to read the web. With proximity, correct grouping of titles and topics will help the reader to understand faster. In other words, correct proximity will most likely increase the views of your site.
 * 2. Why should we be concerned about proximity?**

An important rule to follow is placing your titles closely to the information that it relates to. This will include not only titles, but also paragraphing. Paragraphs should be no more than a space, preferably only an indent. Some of the other rules we should follow when relating to spacing are listed below: 1. For html samples, instead of making for a new paragraph, create a new paragraph by pressing enter. 2. Instead of making for a line break, create a line break by pressing shift enter.
 * 3. What rules should we follow?**

We need to understand that many related topics may be considered as different themes on the website is they are not properly place. Also, the eyes of the readers often have to jump all over the site until they fully understand the information that is presented to them.
 * 4. What are several important issues to understand?**

Often, non-designers add extra spaces between the title of a specific section and its information causing the viewer to assume that they are two different topics. In addition this makes the reader take a longer period of time reading the site which may cause him or her to dislike and stop visiting it completely. Also
 * 5. What are several common mistakes non-designers make?**