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		<title>Why I&#8217;ve Been Working the Night Shift</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not literally, but when you&#8217;re creating custom graphics for Vampire Week you have to come up with some clever title about working at night&#8230; Girl2Watch.com is one of my favorite clients. On a normal week they send me a several pictures of the week&#8217;s featured celebrity and I use Photoshop Elements to layer them with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CSS Rounded Corner Tutorial &#8211; Create Rounded Corners Without Images</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you like to play with your own websites and you&#8217;re looking for a way to create rounded corners on your boxes, navigation bars, etc here&#8217;s a css rounded corner tutorial. Why Rounded Corners Using CSS? The more images we eliminate from our site designs, the faster our sites will load. Until css offered us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Content Curation &#8211; BlissReads Launches</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 12:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past weeks I have had the privilege of working with a fabulous group of women as we&#8217;ve readied to launch BlissReads, the genius Content Curation network founded by Allison Worthington. What is Content Curation? I&#8217;m glad you asked! Content Curating means finding, filtering, and sharing the best content. Period. Many of us do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snoopervising &#8211; My Newest Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some friends came to me this week and asked if I&#8217;d help with the launch of their site&#8217;s new look. I didn&#8217;t need to actually code or build anything, they&#8217;d already hired developers, but they wanted someone to be there through the actual switchover. So, last night I joined a Skype conference to get updated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All I Want for Christmas is an FTP Login. Can We Arrange That?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the end of week one of a proposed three week project. The client is ready to roll. I am anxious to start&#8230; Yea. Haven&#8217;t even started yet. The client&#8217;s previous web developer is too busy telling me how to do things to hand over a blasted FTP login. Three emails back and forth with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design and Decor &#8211; Not the Same Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[{ Hold that thought while I run out the door, jump around in the yard wave my arms in the air and scream for joy } Back! We&#8217;ve all be to the over-decorated websites. You know, the ones people make themselves and just keep adding stuff till their site looks like it belongs in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Week: Building a Portfolio</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow. The past few days have been a little hairy. I really expected to blog more, but it just hasn&#8217;t been happening. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on&#8230; My design business has been picking up and as the year draws to an end, clients are pushing for first-of-the-year launches. Client #1 &#8211; Pro Golf Instructor Has an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing for Local Projects &#8211; Advice Needed</title>
		<link>http://ericasays.com/1706/marketing-for-local-projects-advice-needed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past week or two I&#8217;ve been working on a project that will bring a state of the art online classifieds directory to our community. Yes, we have places online where you can list items, but they&#8217;re all so out dated and hard to navigate that people rarely list things on the sites, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Blog or Site Design Make You Happy?</title>
		<link>http://ericasays.com/1685/does-your-blog-or-site-design-make-you-happy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reading a thread over at the ProBlogger community, I&#8217;m considering a makeover of this site. Again. Why? Because I am not completely in love with the way it looks and works. Yes, I&#8217;ve had a lot of positive feed back. Yes, I LOVE the colors. But, personally, I find it a little juvenile, personal-blog-ish, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing the Launch of Two New Sites</title>
		<link>http://ericasays.com/1622/announcing-the-launch-of-two-new-sites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aside from keeping up with my regular clients, I&#8217;ve spent the last two weeks working on a few projects of my own. While these sites have existed for a while, they have been on a back burner and have had zero activity or visual appeal. I decided it was time to rectify that and am [...]]]></description>
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