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	<title>Simon Day - Professional web designer since 1997 &#187; Random</title>
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		<title>Award Winning&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		I never blow my own trumpet but this one is pretty special.
I have worked on Flightglobal a lot over the last year including the creation of the Paris Air Show front end last year, fixing and updating many pages and recently creating the HTML and CSS for their brand new channel called MRO.
The &#8220;Association of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media gives 2 big boys over a million in new sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		I&#8217;ve just read a post which sums up what I&#8217;ve recently been saying. For all those who think social media is a fad and not worth bothering with I would suggest you start reading about just how successful it can be!
http://www.thebigmoney.com/blogs/
On a social media push last year for a publishing company we generated over a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to increase sales via mobile phones thanks to usability</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		An often overlooked sales avenue is mobile phone users and I admit it wasn’t until last year I began to take it more seriously.  I have been testing various ways of promoting the fact my sites  work on mobile phones like the iPhone and I’ve made quite an (obvious) discovery which has resulted in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think you have what it takes to become a contractor?</title>
		<link>http://www.simonday.com/web-design-blog/2010/02/10/think-you-have-what-it-takes-to-become-a-contractor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[contractor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contractor advice]]></category>

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		I have been contracting for the last 4 years and after my recent (brief) sprint in a permie job it got me thinking about life as a contractor and what it actually means. If you’ve been thinking about it then read on…
Contracting is far from easy and it isn’t a very secure place to be. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google to start dropping IE6 support this year.</title>
		<link>http://www.simonday.com/web-design-blog/2010/02/09/google-to-start-dropping-ie6-support-this-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simonday.com/web-design-blog/2010/02/09/google-to-start-dropping-ie6-support-this-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[google ie6]]></category>

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		Google will scale back IE6 support for Google Docs and Google Sites sometime after March 1st this year. Google announced that decision on Friday, two weeks after the company admitted that hackers had breached its network and stolen information.
&#8220;We plan to stop supporting older browsers for the rest of the Google Apps suite, including Gmail, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Round up of some great posts</title>
		<link>http://www.simonday.com/web-design-blog/2010/02/09/round-up-of-some-great-posts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[post roundup]]></category>

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		As you would have seen I haven&#8217;t posted in a while. In-between Christmas and now I started a new job and then moved back to another job. I also had three freelance projects which meant I have been working until 1am almost every night since November.
I have been catching up on some posts over this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A funny one for a Friday</title>
		<link>http://www.simonday.com/web-design-blog/2009/11/27/a-funny-one-for-a-friday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[freelance humour]]></category>

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		As a freelancer I get a lot of requests to do work for free with a promise of a payout once the job has gone through. I&#8217;m sure many of you get the same thing and 99.99% of the time you never get paid.
The following post had me in stitches and is the funniest post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Round-up of the best posts this week.</title>
		<link>http://www.simonday.com/web-design-blog/2009/11/06/round-up-of-the-best-posts-this-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>

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		These are some of the best new posts I&#8217;ve come across this week. When I&#8217;m not working I&#8217;m reading these kind of posts all the time  
- Invoice like a pro
- The best free fonts of 2009
- Best practices for 6 common user interface elements
- The unbelievable and impossible photos of li wei
- Simple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web design questions to ask new clients</title>
		<link>http://www.simonday.com/web-design-blog/2009/05/22/web-design-build-questions-to-ask-new-clients/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simonday.com/web-design-blog/2009/05/22/web-design-build-questions-to-ask-new-clients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 11:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[client questions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web building]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.simonday.com/web-design-blog/?p=309</guid>
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		One of the hardest things for a designer is the actual build of the web site. Do you often sit there staring at a blank page wondering how you&#8217;re going to start? This is common among a lot of designers and the solution is in the questions you ask the client at the initial meeting. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest site goes online</title>
		<link>http://www.simonday.com/web-design-blog/2009/05/14/latest-site-goes-online/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simonday.com/web-design-blog/2009/05/14/latest-site-goes-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 20:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web design]]></category>

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Chris Clarke Photography
A lot of thought and usability testing went into this design. My knowledge of eye-tracking played a large part in not only the build but also the way the site interacts with the client by way of a mouse over colour on an otherwise black &#38; white photo. This subtle contrast really makes [...]]]></description>
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