Due to a drift in content and focus, the original text of this page, in an altered form, was moved to a new companion page on separation of content and layout.
This article will likely be filled with new content on its own worthy topic; however, with a very long TODO list, this may take some time.
The core statement, however: Content is the important thing; layout a nice-to-have. Unfortunately very many people have it the other way around. The layout can always be altered as time goes by (if content and layout are separated, with little effort); however, building content takes both time and work.
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