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		<title>Oh Google, you DO care!</title>
		<link>http://blog.carricdesign.com/2011/02/oh-google-you-do-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of the work that has been flowing through CarricDesign lately revolves around improving ranking results in &#8216;search engines&#8217; (by which clients usually mean &#8216;Google&#8217;). So when an article comes across my desk about an algorithm update, I sit up and took notice. The article du jour is from Website Magazine and talks about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tag-teaming a website</title>
		<link>http://blog.carricdesign.com/2010/09/tag-teaming-a-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been working alongside some very dedicated volunteers over the past few months on the Kingston WritersFest website. Everything is geared towards the five-day festival that runs in September. One of the challenges has been in getting changes up on the website when more than one person has access to the files. Even in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media</title>
		<link>http://blog.carricdesign.com/2010/07/social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Instead of re-hashing something, I&#8217;m giving you  a link to an interesting  article on Mashable with great tips about managing social media. (p.s. that was the link) The truth of it is that many people who run a small or medium-sized business know that they should be engaged with social media (gotta have a Facebook [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laurie Sylvester &#124; Real Estate Agent in Kingston</title>
		<link>http://blog.carricdesign.com/2010/04/laurie-sylvester-real-estate-agent-in-kingston/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 03:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love launching new websites and today was a great day for that! For the past month, I&#8217;ve been working with an intern on loan from Loyalist College in Belleville. It has been different having someone else around to talk to and bounce ideas off of, and I&#8217;m going to miss Emma! Emma&#8217;s job was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You Want Me To Go Where?&#8221; (making your linking text count)</title>
		<link>http://blog.carricdesign.com/2010/04/you-want-me-to-go-where-making-your-linking-text-count/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was at my workout class this afternoon and had a little epiphany about linking text and how valuable it is to give clear instructions and use it wisely. Did I mention I was at a workout class?  It was one of those where you are lifting weights to the beat of the music, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Really Is The Little Things That Count</title>
		<link>http://blog.carricdesign.com/2010/04/it-really-is-the-little-things-that-count/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody starts off to build a code-heavy, bloated website, so why is it that so many end up there? One reason is the &#8216;what-if&#8217; factor. Here&#8217;s what happens: In the initial meetings, everyone agrees that this new website should be lean and user-friendly. The website, so the story goes, will be geared towards loading quickly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Launching Rearrangements</title>
		<link>http://blog.carricdesign.com/2010/03/launching-rearrangements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rearrangements website was a great opportunity to redesign a well-functioning website and take it up a notch.  The overall goals included not only making the site look professional, but re-organizing the material to make it easier to find.  A common problem with websites, this one had been added onto over the months since its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Are All Saying &#8216;Google&#8217; When We Mean &#8216;search&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.carricdesign.com/2010/03/why-we-are-all-saying-google-when-we-mean-search/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For most users (so the data says) there is only one search engine &#8211; Google. Regardless of the rumours that we&#8217;ve heard that others are out there, we are Google users. (On a side note: I&#8217;m surprised that more people aren&#8217;t flocking to Bing, if for no other reason than that it is fun to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Javascript menus &#8211; poof!&#8230;they&#8217;re gone!</title>
		<link>http://blog.carricdesign.com/2010/03/javascript-menus-poof-theyre-gone/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.carricdesign.com/2010/03/javascript-menus-poof-theyre-gone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently was approached by a business owner who wanted to redesign their website.  They had actually done a fine do-it-yourself job up until this point, but were ready to take it to the next level. One of the things that I noticed in my initial assessment was that the main navigation was handled with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never done&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.carricdesign.com/2010/03/never-done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have this floor cleaner called &#8216;Once N&#8217; Done&#8216; (I highly recommend it) that allows me to mop my floor without having to rinse it. Yep &#8211; you just put some in the bucket with the water, slosh it over the floor and you&#8217;re done! Unfortunately, many people approach their websites with the same kind [...]]]></description>
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