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		<title>The Ultimate Sacrifice: How Design Can Hurt Your Search Engine Rankings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone wants a pretty website. Everyone also wants to be #1 on google. It is very difficult to achieve both with a new website unless you are willing to make a few sacrifices.
In order to index and rank your website, search engines such as google usually use programs called &#8220;bots&#8221; or &#8220;spiders&#8221; to crawl the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.websitesbykristen.com/blog/?p=118</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Favorite Firefox Add-Ons for Webby People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t tell you enough how much firefox has improved my life. Not only is it 10000 times better than Internet Explorer just on its own, but the thousands add-ons you can install make life so much easier! You can find an add-on for just about anything you could ever want from your browser, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.websitesbykristen.com/blog/?p=111</link>
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		<title>Domain Registry of America Scam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the years I have had several clients fall victim to this scam, so I thought it would be nice to write a blog to explain what this is.
What is the scam?
A Canadian company called Domain Registry of America is well known in the web world for the deceptive fake invoices they mail to domain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.websitesbykristen.com/blog/?p=104</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Feature&#8221; This!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my time as a Cincinnati based website designer, I would have to say about 40% of my clients are either looking for a re-design of an existing website, or for me to fix what another company, well&#8230; didn&#8217;t do so good.
Because of that last set of folks, I have been privy to a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.websitesbykristen.com/blog/?p=95</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Things I HATE To Put in A Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lets face it, there's a lot of ugly websites out there. The Oatmeal published one of my favorite articles about the life of a web designer which can be found here: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell. There is a fine balance between doing what you know is best as a professional web designer and doing what your client wants [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.websitesbykristen.com/blog/?p=70</link>
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		<title>Why Your New Website Won&#8217;t Save Your Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of my clients have a pretty good grip on their business, as well as how and to what extent a website will help their business. However, with the down economy, I do get the occasional client who calls me four days after their website goes live, and says something to the effect of:
&#8220;Hi, my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.websitesbykristen.com/blog/?p=63</link>
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		<title>Spam Used to be a Meat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s face it&#8230; everyone has problems with spam (and I&#8217;m not talking digestive problems from the canned kind). In fact, I just finished deleting 250 spam comments from my blog. Its a growing issue, and just like any technical annoyance, the spammers are usually one step ahead of the spam blockers. So what can you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.websitesbykristen.com/blog/?p=57</link>
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		<title>Text to Movie Application</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently discovered a really cool service at http://www.xtranormal.com which allows you to pick a scene with pre-set characters, then lets you choose whether you have one or two characters, and animates whatever custom text you decide to input.
Very neat, and most of the scenes are free. The only drawback is an advertisement at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.websitesbykristen.com/blog/?p=53</link>
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		<title>The Land of the Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While my company may have a very specific list of services&#8230; website design, programming, hosting and domain registration&#8230; for many of my clients, I am the only person they know who uses a computer more  than just to send an email and browse the web. I frequently get phone calls from people asking me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.websitesbykristen.com/blog/?p=43</link>
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		<title>Do It Yourself Blues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been asked many times by prospective clients if I recommend using one of those Do-It-Yourself template services. Now, in my head this translates to &#8220;should I hire you or just do it on my own&#8221; and seems to have an obvious answer. Honestly though, I don&#8217;t have any die-hard objections to most of these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.websitesbykristen.com/blog/?p=33</link>
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