This is a good set of guidelines for current web sites. Look at the examples first.
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Jacob Nielsen on the effect on screen resolution of site design.
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We can use this for rating control. How about when a user rates showing all segments of the control as blank then animating them filling with orange maybe expanding each as it is filled then shrinking down before the next is filled then highlighting the changed rating number then fading it back to normal.
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