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		<title>Does social media really work? Yes!</title>
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Social media is an excellent way of obtaining instant hits to your site but many people don’t realise it is much more than just this. Today I want to show you it works and to explain that it is much more than just increasing hits…
I believe that the main problem with Social Media is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to beat the nightmares of IE6 thanks to Google.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		If you’ve been designing web sites for any length of time you will have come across some pain dealing with IE6. It single-handedly causes more nightmares than all the other browsers put together. Today I’d like to talk about solutions which may fix many IE6 problems and all it takes is a minute.
I have spent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10+ useful code snippets to develop iPhone friendly websites</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		Found this page during lunch today. If you are planning to develop your web site  for iPhones  this page contains some real nuggets of information:
http://www.catswhocode.com
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		<title>A guide to web usability and how to use it</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		In my opinion web usability is the single most important part of any new design and yet it is the most overlooked (or completely ignored) part of any project. So what is “web usability” and how do you do usability testing?
The first thing to understand is that people do not enter a page and look [...]]]></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>Nice collection of fonts for business logos</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		I saw this post today and it is a nice collection of &#8220;free&#8221; fonts for business logos.
See: http://www.1stwebdesigner.com
Also see:
20 high quality free fonts
40 excellent free fonts for professional design



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		<title>Think you have what it takes to become a contractor?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		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>Microsoft announce support for CSS3 in IE9</title>
		<link>http://www.simonday.com/web-design-blog/2009/11/30/microsoft-announce-support-for-css3-in-ie9/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simonday.com/web-design-blog/2009/11/30/microsoft-announce-support-for-css3-in-ie9/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		While I was hoping CSS3 would have been supported in IE8 we can at least look forward to IE9 where it will start supporting CSS3.
CSS3 gives a designer much greater control over presentation and less reliance on images (curved edges can be done with no images in CSS3 as an example).
See This SitePoint link about [...]]]></description>
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