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	<description>Web Design Advice for Small Businesses and Educators Who Want An Online Presence</description>
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		<title>New! RSS Feeds Explained</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of course you&#8217;ve noticed those small orange &#8216;XML&#8217; or &#8216;RSS&#8217; buttons popping up all over the web. 
Perhaps you have clicked one out of curiosity, only to find either a list of links topped by a drop-down menu, or &#8212; even odder &#8212; a curious jumble of strange-looking   code with lots of X&#8217;s. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethesdawebdesigner.com/2007/08/28/new-rss-feeds-explained/</link>
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		<title>Planning Your Site Design</title>
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You&#8217;ve found a designer you can work with.
You have visited their site a hundred times.
You have colors and images and even page topics all picked out. But what to put them in?

Well, the designer should be guiding you, but it&#8217;s good to be informed. Here are two choices to consider:

A traditional web site, with Home, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethesdawebdesigner.com/2007/06/11/planning-your-site-design/</link>
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		<title>Technicalities Behind Validation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post, I gave you general reasons why validating your site&#8217;s code is important. Here is the background:
 Accessibility
The internet is a useful communication tool for the home-bound, and the handicapped. Special devices help people overcome sight and hearing problems to view web sites, but only if those sites are built accessibly-compliant as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethesdawebdesigner.com/2007/06/11/valid/</link>
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		<title>Music</title>
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Music]]></description>
		<link>http://bethesdawebdesigner.com/2007/06/11/archives/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Validate my Site? What are You Talking about?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you contract a web designer, be sure to include the requirement that the site passes validation for coding and accessibility. Now, if you intend to include Flash, however, those particular pages might not validate. It takes special coding that sometimes works and sometimes doesn&#8217;t.
Why, you say? Why validate?
So your site can be read now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethesdawebdesigner.com/2007/06/10/validate-my-site-what-are-you-talking-about/</link>
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		<title>Is Small Business Coming?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Small Businesses are showing a new interest in getting on the Web...]]></description>
		<link>http://bethesdawebdesigner.com/2007/06/10/is-small-business-coming/</link>
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		<title>Small Business: Here are Three Tips to SEO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome&#8230;My first post is to small businesses who are considering a web presence…
Three Top Tips to SEO.
What&#8217;s SEO, you say?
SEO is the acronym for “Search Engine Optimization”. And if you are going to have a web site, you are going to have to get some SEO or no one will ever see that color scheme [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethesdawebdesigner.com/2007/06/10/small-business-here-are-three-tips-to-seo/</link>
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