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		<title>Has your web designer gone out of business?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the spirit of trying something new, I&#8217;ve had an article published on the excellent Find Networking Events site.
Click here to learn what to do if your web site designer has gone out of business.
Posted in General Business, Web Design       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idea15.wordpress.com&blog=1298008&post=1171&subd=idea15&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://idea15.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/has-your-web-designer-gone-out-of-business/</link>
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		<title>You just don&#8217;t understand me!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a web designer.  (You probably noticed that.)  So when looking for services and assistance for my business, I choose providers who have a top notch, efficient, and well constructed web presence.  After all, you wouldn&#8217;t choose an architect who lived in a ramshackle house, you wouldn&#8217;t choose a chef who hated food, and as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idea15.wordpress.com&blog=1298008&post=1152&subd=idea15&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://idea15.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/you-just-dont-understand-me/</link>
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		<title>WordPress pros targeted in dodgy spec work &#8220;offer&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a member of the surprisingly useful WordPress group on LinkedIn, which counts just under 3,000 WordPress obsessives professionals in its roster.  This week several dozen of us were targeted by a very dodgy (and likely fake) member recruiting people for a &#8220;job&#8221; that resorted to every cliche in the book.  The candidate would basically [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idea15.wordpress.com&blog=1298008&post=1141&subd=idea15&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://idea15.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/wordpress-pros-targeted-in-dodgy-spec-work-offer/</link>
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		<title>Extracting a post&#8217;s image as a background in WordPress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a little trick I just invented.  When using WordPress as a CMS, we often configure it so that a certain post is showcased as a &#8220;featured article&#8221; on the home page.  That post may well have an image in it.  But for a project I&#8217;m currently working on, the design brief calls for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idea15.wordpress.com&blog=1298008&post=1132&subd=idea15&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://idea15.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/extracting-a-posts-image-as-a-background-in-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>Lovin&#8217; my Cats Paw!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have had an unusual fortnight of work which has involved a lot of repetitive cutting, pasting, clicking, and circular mouse movements for the work required on two different projects.  There&#8217;s simply no way to get around it.  Predictably, my hands are a bit stiff and sore, and my right hand tends to go ice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idea15.wordpress.com&blog=1298008&post=1125&subd=idea15&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://idea15.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/lovin-my-cats-paw/</link>
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		<title>Dot netted!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got the November 2009 issue of .net magazine through the post yesterday, went off for a swim and took the magazine with me in my bag, went for a cappuccino after the swim and sat down to read the magazine, and found myself quoted on page 14.  After laughing out loud in a way [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idea15.wordpress.com&blog=1298008&post=1123&subd=idea15&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://idea15.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/dot-netted/</link>
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		<title>Should you provide your clients with backups?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday my post on what goes into a good web design contract got a pingback from Smashing Magazine, so I&#8217;ve been enjoying a happy little spike in traffic. The ensuing discussion raises the question of whether web designers should provide clients with backups of their site files and what they should charge for them.
The answer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idea15.wordpress.com&blog=1298008&post=1102&subd=idea15&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://idea15.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/should-you-provide-your-clients-with-backups/</link>
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		<title>Apply sparingly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny cos it&#8217;s true&#8230;

Posted in Marketing, Web Design       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idea15.wordpress.com&blog=1298008&post=1097&subd=idea15&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://idea15.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/apply-sparingly/</link>
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		<title>Accenting the negative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went networking last night.  Overall I enjoy networking.  What I don&#8217;t enjoy is something I have to deal with pretty much every day of my life:
&#8220;So where is the accent from?&#8221;
I realise people are just trying to be polite and make good conversation, but does it not occur to them how much it drives [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idea15.wordpress.com&blog=1298008&post=1085&subd=idea15&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://idea15.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/accenting-the-negative/</link>
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		<title>Caught in the act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This amusing data was in my Statcounter blog stats this morning.  It&#8217;s obviously a would-be spammer checking to see if previous spam comments got through, meaning this blog would be ripe for the picking &#8211; which it&#8217;s not.

You almost have to feel sorry for this guy.  You can&#8217;t help but visualise some loser sitting alone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idea15.wordpress.com&blog=1298008&post=1081&subd=idea15&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://idea15.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/caught-in-the-act/</link>
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