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		<title>The Principles of Beautiful Web Design</title>
		<link>http://www.drawingontheweb.com/2007/07/20/the-principles-of-beautiful-web-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally found the web design book for which I had been looking. No, not an HTML book, not a CSS book, nor a JavaScript book. Not Web 2.0. Not Ruby on Rails or Ajax, either&#8230; It&#8217;s actually a book to lead we non-artistically skilled web designers through a quick graphics and art education &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why VPs Shouldn&#8217;t Do Detailed Web Design</title>
		<link>http://www.drawingontheweb.com/2007/05/28/why-vps-shouldnt-do-detailed-web-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 02:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a great little article at the Sun.com (Sun Microsystems) web design blog today &#8212; all about web design by Vice Presidents (who ought to know better&#8230;)]]></description>
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		<title>Suggested Web Design Resources</title>
		<link>http://www.drawingontheweb.com/2007/02/22/60/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adsense]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[CSS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am often asked which resources (books, etc.) that I recommend for people who want to create web sites. Many web hosts, such as Powweb, provide basic templates for easy creation of a web site. These can be your base for your very first web site, or can function as a quick way to set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Web Design #1</title>
		<link>http://www.drawingontheweb.com/2007/01/12/bad-web-design-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like Jason Berberich is starting a series of bad web design reviews. Or, perhaps this might be the only one &#8212; he&#8217;s featuring it because of the hour+ that he spent on hold waiting for tech support.. Check out his Bad Web Design #1: Symantec Mysupport . He&#8217;s got a very valid point. I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Design Tools I Just Bought</title>
		<link>http://www.drawingontheweb.com/2007/01/07/web-design-tools-i-just-bought/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drawingontheweb.com/2007/01/07/web-design-tools-i-just-bought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Affiliate Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JavaScript]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I picked up a couple web design &#038; marketing tools from Teri Champigny: One-Time-Offer in a Box is designed to give us the coding we need to make one time offers to visitors, members and new subscribers to our sites and newsletters, and Web Elements E-Z Tools for Webmasters. This package is designed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Hate IE7!</title>
		<link>http://www.drawingontheweb.com/2006/11/19/i-hate-ie7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CSS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For an &#8220;improved web browser,&#8221; Internet Explorer 7 has much in common with a stubborn mule. No matter what you want to do, it doesn&#8217;t want to do it right now. If you happened to visit my Terry&#8217;s Computer Tips web site late this afternoon, you might have seen what I mean&#8230; I made some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IE7 Web Design Issue:  Centering</title>
		<link>http://www.drawingontheweb.com/2006/11/11/ie7-web-design-issue-centering/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drawingontheweb.com/2006/11/11/ie7-web-design-issue-centering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CSS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Host your own online meetings for up to 10 people!Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Hold online seminars – with up to 1,000 at once – with GoToWebinar, the new do-it-yourself Web event service. Try it free. I&#8217;ve run into two problems that were fine in IE6, in Firefox and Opera, but that display poorly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Website Usability, Revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.drawingontheweb.com/2006/11/09/improving-website-usability-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drawingontheweb.com/2006/11/09/improving-website-usability-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 04:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter how gorgeous your website design might be, if your visitors have difficulty finding your content, then you will lose those visitors quickly. Here are some usability tips to improve the design of your website to ensure it serves its functions optimally: First, check the fonts and typography of your content If you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Email Address on the Web?</title>
		<link>http://www.drawingontheweb.com/2006/10/30/email-address-on-the-web/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drawingontheweb.com/2006/10/30/email-address-on-the-web/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you post your email address on your web site? Almost all of us do &#8212; we almost have to do this &#8212; but that makes it easily harvestible by spammers&#8217; spiders. There are some tricks you can use to make your email address available to visitors but not for the robot spiders&#8230; First, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My new Computer for Christmas site</title>
		<link>http://www.drawingontheweb.com/2006/10/25/my-new-computer-for-christmas-site/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drawingontheweb.com/2006/10/25/my-new-computer-for-christmas-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just released my &#8220;new&#8221; (reworked) site Computer for Christmas It was up last year in its first draft, although I got little traffic to it. This time, I&#8217;ve designed a new header, played with the colors, and added a lot more information and search features. Check it out when you get a chance &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Software &#8211; Moving from Serendipity to WordPress</title>
		<link>http://www.drawingontheweb.com/2006/10/24/blog-software-moving-from-serendipity-to-wordpress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drawingontheweb.com/2006/10/24/blog-software-moving-from-serendipity-to-wordpress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made up my mind. I like to tinker with the pages too much to use Serendipity as my blog software package. Drawing on the Web has been a WordPress blog since the beginning. But, I have several other blogs running Serendipity. The &#8220;Smarty Templates&#8221; for all user-interaction displays may be neat from a developer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should I Create a Web Site?</title>
		<link>http://www.drawingontheweb.com/2006/09/16/should-i-create-a-web-site/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drawingontheweb.com/2006/09/16/should-i-create-a-web-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do I Need A Web Site? Should I create one? Web sites have become a necessity for almost every kind of business. Companies, businesses, and individuals need a web presence to show that they are &#8220;up to date.&#8221; Sometimes, the web sites are designed for e-commerce, the selling of goods via the web site. Other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improve Usability of Your Website</title>
		<link>http://www.drawingontheweb.com/2006/09/15/improve-usability-of-your-website/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drawingontheweb.com/2006/09/15/improve-usability-of-your-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter how brilliant your website design is, if your visitors have trouble reaching your content, then your site then your site is as useful as an empty shell. Here are some usability tips to improve the design of your website to ensure it serves its functions optimally: First, check the typography of your content [...]]]></description>
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