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		<title>favicon.cc</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although still in beta testing, favicon.cc is an extremely useful tool for anyone looking to spice up their website!  I&#8217;m sure everyone of you have noticed sites like Google.com that have a personalized icon at the top right of your browser.  This icon is called a favorite icon. Favorite icons have never been easy to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ranking or Looks?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Obviously, if someone offered your site either a great ranking or a great new look (assuming you had neither), you would probably pick a great ranking.  Why?  Because it is a lot easier to build a great looking site than to get a great ranking! The thing is, most likely you are not going to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/08/ranking-or-looks.html</link>
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		<title>GoDaddy vs DreamHost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my mind, the two best hosting companies is GoDaddy and DreamHost.  Of course, the question must be asked, &#8220;which should I use?&#8221;  Although this question is easily answered, that answer may not be the same for everyone. GoDaddy is by far the most used hosting company (and domain registrar) out there.  It supports virtually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/08/godaddy-vs-dreamhost.html</link>
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		<title>Flash vs HTML5 &#8211; The War Continues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this deadly war between the ever popular Adobe Flash and the new HTML5 alternative, web developers all over are frantically trying to keep up with the new changes. I have covered many of the basics of HTML5 vs Flash in some of my previous articles. For lack of time, I will not go into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/08/flash-vs-html5-the-war-continues.html</link>
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		<title>Bing on Yahoo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, you read correctly.  Yahoo is now partnering with Microsoft&#8217;s new search engine &#8211; Bing!  Soon, you should start seeing search results from Bing when searching Yahoo.  During the testing stage, up to %25 of organic search results (the ones that aren&#8217;t ads) displayed in Yahoo will be powered by Bing.  About %3.5 of paid search results (the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/07/bing-on-yahoo.html</link>
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		<title>4 Jazzy Icon Galleries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most websites you see today are full of small pictures that are usually linked to something the picture represents.  These small images (as you probably know) are called icons.  Icons can be a great way to jazz up any website.  For instance, when setting up text links on the top or side of a website that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/07/4-jazzy-icon-galleries.html</link>
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		<title>Google AdWords?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is not uncommon for people to mistake SEO (search engine optimization) for advertising on Google.  Just to make things clear for you, Google AdWords is not SEO!  Please don&#8217;t misunderstand me.  Google AdWords isn&#8217;t bad; it just isn&#8217;t SEO.  I guess I should start by explaining to you what Google AdWords really is! Google [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/07/google-adwords.html</link>
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		<title>The Mobile Revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is something new on the horizon of web browsing as we know it.  Something that you may have already seen.  It&#8217;s something that has been at work for a few years.  This something is what I like to call the mobile revolution. This revolution is literally changing the way future (and even current) generations will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/07/the-mobile-revolution.html</link>
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		<title>WordPress.org vs WordPress.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I went over the difference between Blogger and WordPress.  At the time, I was still using a remotely hosted blog platform for Web Constructions&#8217; blog.  Since then, I have switched to a self hosted blog platform.  If any of you read this post, you will know that I did not recommend using [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/06/wordpress-org-vs-wordpress-com.html</link>
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		<title>5 Killer Photoshop Alternatives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, before I begin this post, I would like to make one obvious announcement.  Web Constructions&#8217; website has been completely redesigned!!  What do you think of the new look? A couple weeks ago I posted that I would write an article on some of the amazing photoshop alternatives I have found over the past few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/06/5-killer-photoshop-alternatives.html</link>
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		<title>Mayday Google Algorithm Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sound like Greek to you? Well, I must admit that it did to me!! I&#8217;ll break it down a bit for you. The term &#8220;algorithm&#8221; is simply the formula used by search engines to determine how to rank your site. So, this is simply an update by Google that will change the way your site [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/06/mayday-google-algorithm-update.html</link>
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		<title>My Cool Button</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who are trying to design a website but can&#8217;t afford Photoshop to make shiny buttons that look cool, you&#8217;re in luck! I, like many of you, started out designing websites long before I could even think about purchasing the $500+ Adobe Photoshop. During that period of time, I found some many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/06/my-cool-button.html</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Website Designs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a designer, I am always on the lookout for cool websites so I can steal ideas and keep up with the going trends in web design.&#160;Over the years there have been a few sites that I absolutely love and would like to share with you. I have titled this article &#8220;Top 10 Website Designs&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/05/top-10-website-designs.html</link>
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		<title>Adobe&#8217;s &#8220;Truth About Flash&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I went over the highlights of an article written by Apple&#8217;s CEO, Steve Jobs, on Flash.  This week, I would like to go over the article Adobe wrote, entitled &#8220;The truth about Flash&#8220;, in response to Apple&#8217;s &#8220;Thoughts on Flash&#8220;. It was not hard to see that Adobe, in this article, was trying to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/05/adobes-truth-about-flash.html</link>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s &#8220;Thoughts on Flash&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, the CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs announced for the first time where Apple stands on Flash.&#160; In his article entitled &#8220;Thoughts on Flash&#8221; Steve stated basically what everyone originally speculated.&#160;&#160;In this article,&#160;Apple&#8217;s CEO&#160;gave six reasons Flash is not supported on the iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. Steve Jobs stated that Flash is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/05/apples-thoughts-on-flash.html</link>
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		<title>Penalty!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a common thing for a website&#8217;s ranking to suddenly drop in a given search engine. Although this doesn&#8217;t always mean your ranking has been penalized, sometimes it does. To help avoid search engine penalties, you need to stay in Google&#8217;s “good graces”. One thing to avoid is using lots of gateway (or automatically [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/05/penalty.html</link>
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		<title>Making Great Titles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When browsing for articles on specific topics, people usually look at the title as it appears in Google&#8217;s search results before ever opening the page.&#160; Many times, as you all know, if the title doesn&#8217;t seem interesting or relevant the person in question will simply skip over it without ever clicking the link!&#160; That&#8217;s why, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/05/making-great-titles.html</link>
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		<title>Web CEO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the first search engine optimization software tools introduced to me was the popular Web CEO. Although you can buy paid versions, you can also download a free version that never expires. I would definitely recommend it for those who are just starting out in the web industry. Web CEO has a host of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/05/web-ceo.html</link>
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		<title>Custom 404 Error Page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing worse than going to a web page and finding the dreaded &#8220;Error 404 &#8211; Page Not Found&#8221;. No website owner wants to put his viewers through an error like this. However, no matter how hard you try, it&#8217;s virtually impossible to escape broken links. There is, however, a way to make it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/04/custom-404-error-page.html</link>
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		<title>Blogger vs WordPress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although there are others, Blogger (Blogspot) and WordPress are the two most popular blog platforms. Today, I will attempt to give a fair comparison between the two. (I do realize that I may not make a completely fair comparison considering, as is obvious, I use Blogger!) As far as templates and layout, Blogger wins hands [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/04/blogger-vs-wordpress.html</link>
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		<title>Using PDFs on Your Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have, countless times, seen Word documents put on a website for users to read something. There is nothing wrong with putting a document on your website, however it&#8217;s not a good idea to use a Microsoft Office Word document. There are hundreds of people out there that do not have Microsoft Office Word on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/04/using-pdfs-on-your-website.html</link>
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		<title>Delicious Bookmarks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of you have probably heard of the social bookmarking website, Delicious. It is a site where people can bookmark their favorite websites online. When you bookmark a website on Delicious, your bookmark is publicly displayed along with any notes you put. Websites with more Delicious bookmarks are viewed with a higher esteem by people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/04/delicious-bookmarks.html</link>
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		<title>Bing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past year, there has been a lot of talk of Microsoft’s search engine, Bing and whether or not it will overtake Yahoo and eventually Google. Microsoft has done a really good job with marketing Bing, and as a result, the new search engine has gained a lot of support. Website owners should understand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/04/bing.html</link>
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		<title>10 Blog Article Ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, as I sat down to write an article, I was struck with a question which I am many times haunted with, &#8220;what do I write about?!!&#8221; This is a question I doubt any blog writer is free of! So, in today&#8217;s post, I&#8217;m going to list ten ideas for your blog. I think it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/04/10-blog-article-ideas.html</link>
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		<title>SSL Certificates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although we see them a lot on the web, few people actually know what SSL Certificates are. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. It is a way that website owners can encrypt the information that is transferred from the user to their server. You have probably, at one time or another, been browsing the web [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/04/ssl-certificates.html</link>
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		<title>HTML5 vs Flash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As more and more Apple products such as the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad are being released without flash support, people, especially developers, are wondering, &#8220;will flash die out?&#8221; It&#8217;s just been speculation for a long time &#8211; but now, it&#8217;s turning into reality. W3C is right now working on what they call HTML5. If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/04/html5-vs-flash.html</link>
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		<title>Start Digging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Digg is one of the largest social news websites in the world. It is a place where people can &#8220;digg&#8221; links to articles, videos, or pictures and comment on them.&#160;Submitting&#160;your blog articles&#160;to&#160;Digg&#160;can be a great way to publish them on the web. If people like your article, they can&#160;&#8221;digg&#8221; it.&#160; The more diggs&#160;an article gets, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/04/start-digging.html</link>
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		<title>10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s society, owning a website is essential to having a successful business.&#160; Don&#8217;t believe me?&#160; Here are 10 reasons why: When you own a website you are&#8230; &#160;&#160; 1. A Global Company.&#160; When you have a website for your business, you are no longer a local company, you are international! &#160;&#160; 2. Likely to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/03/10-reasons-why-your-business-needs-a-website.html</link>
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		<title>Will the iPad Change the Way We Build Websites?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the release of the Apple iPad nearing, web designers all across the country are asking the same question: &#8220;will the iPad change the way we build websites?&#8221; Perhaps the first question that must be asked is, &#8220;will the iPad become popular among consumers, or will it simply die out?&#8221; These are some tough questions, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/03/will-the-ipad-change-the-way-we-build-websites.html</link>
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		<title>Sending Email Promotions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We generally think of email promos as annoying &#8220;junk mail&#8221; that is constantly bombarding our inboxes. However, business owners can use email marketing to their advantage. Putting a simple form on your website that allows people to sign up for email promos is a very good idea if you want to market your product. People [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/03/sending-email-promotions.html</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Just Write to Search Engines!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a blog writer, it&#8217;s so easy for me to get caught in the trap where I just write so search engines will rank my site higher. Although writing blog articles does help your website’s ranking with Google, don&#8217;t make that your primary purpose for writing. A lot of business owners understand that keeping up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/03/dont-just-write-to-search-engines.html</link>
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		<title>Cookies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the cookies to your left do look good, unfortunately they are not the topic of this article:( Today I would like to explain browser cookies. When speaking in terms of the internet, cookies are small text files stored on your hard drive by sites you&#8217;ve visited in the past few weeks. The actual text [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/03/cookies.html</link>
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		<title>Inbound Marketing vs. Outbound Marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people think of marketing as getting your name out there through TV/radio ads, email promotions, billboards, etc. Although this is definitely marketing, it is not necessarily the best way to market. If you advertise in this way you have merely used outbound marketing to get your name out there. These methods of marketing are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/03/inbound-marketing-vs-outbound-marketing.html</link>
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		<title>Top 10 FTP Clients</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FTP clients run as programs on your computer. They are used to access your remotely hosted server. Web developers use FTP clients to publish their designs to the web. I&#8217;ve made up a list of my top favorite ones: &#160;&#160; 10. Core FTP is a very simple program with a powerful interface. It retails for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/03/top-10-ftp-clients.html</link>
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		<title>Google PageRank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google uses a complicated method to determine the ranking of a given website. The ranking Google gives is commonly referred to as PageRank. Since the mathematical details of how Google determines your PageRank is very hard to understand, I won&#8217;t go over all the details. I will, however, try to give you a general overview [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/02/google-pagerank.html</link>
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		<title>Using a Remotely Hosted Shopping Cart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last post I went over the details of how to get a shopping cart that&#8217;s hosted on your own site. Today, I want to show you the possibility of getting a remotely hosted shopping cart. So what is a remotely hosted shopping cart? It is simply a shopping cart that&#8217;s hosted on someone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/02/using-a-remotely-hosted-shopping-cart.html</link>
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		<title>eCommerce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shopping carts are getting to be very popular on the web. In fact, recently one of the most asked questions I&#8217;ve gotten is &#8220;can you build me a shopping cart?&#8221; Well, to answer the question, yes I can! There are several steps that are required to get a shopping cart on your site. I would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/02/ecommerce.html</link>
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		<title>Rank Checker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wanted to see what your website&#8217;s ranking is for a certain keyword without searching through every major search engine manually? Well, I know I have!! It turns out that knowing what your ranking is can be quite important. It&#8217;s good to know how you’re doing with ranking on search engines and for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/02/rank-checker.html</link>
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		<title>How Often Should I Update My Blog?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first started a blog for my business, a question that came to my head was &#8220;how often should I post a new article?&#8221; I think this is a very common question among business owners. Although it doesn&#8217;t seem too important, it is extremely important!! Usually when people start a blog they post new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/02/how-often-should-i-update-my-blog.html</link>
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		<title>Using Twitter to Market Your Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social media is a wonderful tool that many are using to help market their business. There are a few social media websites that are extremely important to search engines; Twitter is one. Twitter, unlike most social media, is a micro-blogging site, which means you can&#8217;t post more than two or three sentences at a time. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/01/using-twitter-to-market-your-business.html</link>
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		<title>Off Page SEO vs. On Page SEO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. It has to do with the process of marketing your website on search engines. SEO is not paying for links to go on the top and side of search results in Google. Although this may help &#8220;market&#8221; your site, it doesn&#8217;t use strategies to make your site get a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/01/off-page-seo-vs-on-page-seo.html</link>
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		<title>Google Analytics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever wanted to find out who is viewing your site and when? Knowing who is visiting your site is more important than you may think. It tells you how well you’re doing with SEO. And when you make changes to your site, you can see which changes helped get more traffic and which ones didn’t. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/01/google-analytics.html</link>
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		<title>Flash &#8211; To Use or Not to Use?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who do not know, flash is not the light you have on your camera! Flash is a component many people put on their websites. Think of it as an interactive video. You can set it up to play videos, slide shows, pictures, etc. But you can also add links and buttons [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/01/flash-to-use-or-not-to-use.html</link>
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		<title>Link Exchange</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The way to rank high on search engines has, and always will be through the links pointing to your website. The more links you have that point to your website, the better ranking you will get. Not only links to your site, but links with the anchor text reflecting the keywords you want to rank [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/01/link-exchange.html</link>
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		<title>Using Facebook to Market Your Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Getting your business on social media sites has always been important. And now, with Google Caffeine&#8217;s release just starting to take effect, social media is more important than ever! But, believe it or not, some social media sites are more important than others. You guessed it&#8230;Facebook is one of the important ones! Why is putting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2010/01/using-facebook-to-market-your-business.html</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I would just like to wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thanks to all who read my tips on web design/SEO this past year, and may you all enjoy the posts to come! I hope you all enjoy this very special Holiday. And may your business succeed in the coming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/12/merry-christmas.html</link>
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		<title>Creating an Audio Podcast for iTunes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last post I went over the basics of getting audio on your site. In today&#8217;s post I will cover a very popular way people publish audio on the web &#8211; podcasting. Now, although podcasting is not just for audio, today I will be going over the basics of podcasting in this manner. First [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/12/creating-an-audio-podcast-for-itunes.html</link>
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		<title>Getting Audio on Your Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several posts ago I went over the possibilities of getting video on your site. I think it would be a good idea to explain the possibilities of getting audio on your site as well. Most audio is just linked. This means you click on the text or image, and the audio pops up in Window [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/12/getting-audio-on-your-site.html</link>
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		<title>Reaching Out with Social Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several posts ago I went over the benefits of getting on social media sites. That is a great thing to do, but if you don&#8217;t reach out to other profiles and blogs, you haven&#8217;t done much. What do I mean by this? Well, there are a variety of ways to reach out to other profiles. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/12/reaching-out-with-social-media.html</link>
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		<title>Google Webmaster Tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google provides a free service for website owners, Webmaster Tools. I&#8217;ve been using this service for a while now, and it has really proved helpful for my website ranking. Webmaster Tools has many features for anyone with a website. You can submit XML sitemaps to Google, see indexing errors, set your preferred domain, and even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/12/google-webmaster-tools.html</link>
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		<title>Website Load Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that Google is releasing its new version (Google Caffeine), website owners must be ready to make changes to their site. One of these changes is load time. Have you ever been searching for something, and found a website, but when you clicked the link it took forever to come up? Well, if you’re like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/12/website-load-time.html</link>
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		<title>Browser Compatibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people do not realize that different web browsers won&#8217;t always read web pages the same way.&#160; What do I mean by this? &#160;Well, there are many different web browsers out there.&#160; When looking at the same web page on two browsers, you will hardly ever see the exact same thing.&#160; Go ahead and try [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/11/browser-compatibility.html</link>
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		<title>Using FeedBurner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s FeedBurner is an awesome way to stay on top of your blog feed. Why is FeedBurner so much better than just a normal feed? Well, first of all, FeedBurner creates a feed for your blog automatically. It also shows you how many people are subscribed to your feed, so you know who’s watching you. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/11/using-feedburner.html</link>
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		<title>30 Boxes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many companies need online calendars to keep track of events, and post them on their website. Lots of business owners are content with the very annoying Google Calendar. Google Calendar is full of errors and is not what I would recommend for your business. I would recommend a calendar called 30 Boxes. This calendar has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/11/30-boxes.html</link>
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		<title>What is Google Caffeine?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe some of you have heard the term &#8220;Google Caffeine&#8221; in the past few weeks. But what is Google Caffeine? Well, Google Caffeine is a code name for a new version of Google that is beginning to be released one data center at a time. Of course, when this new version is fully released, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/11/what-is-google-caffeine.html</link>
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		<title>Using A Desktop Email Client</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last post I showed the benefits of having an email address with your own domain name. In today&#8217;s post I&#8217;m going to cover an aspect of email that has really helped me personally as well as in business. Desktop email clients can be a very helpful tool for your company.&#160; They&#160;pull incoming emails [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/11/using-a-desktop-email-client.html</link>
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		<title>Getting an Email Address with Your Domain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last post I discussed the advantages of having your own domain name. In today&#8217;s post, I am going to go over the advantages of getting an email address for your domain. If you have an email address with your own domain name, your email will not end with the @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, etc.; it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/11/getting-an-email-address-with-your-domain.html</link>
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		<title>Why Having Your Own Domain is So Important</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is possible to get free sub domains for your website.&#160; Some people use this for their business, trying to save money.&#160; However, this is not a very good idea.&#160; Why is having your own domain important then?&#160; Well first of all, Google likes it better; so if you want to rank high on search [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/11/why-having-your-own-domain-is-so-important.html</link>
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		<title>Bust A Name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just the other day, I came across a really cool site. It gave me an idea for today’s post. Bust A Name allows you to type in all the keywords you want for your domain name, and they find all the possible domain names containing those keywords! It&#8217;s really cool; I wish I knew about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/11/bust-a-name.html</link>
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		<title>What is the Most Used Search Engine?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, the short and easy way to answer this question is &#8220;Google.&#8221;&#160; But obviously, there are&#160;more search engines&#160;- some more important than others.&#160; The pie chart&#160;above shows which search engines are the most used.&#160; This is based on a report from Nielsen Online in March of 2009.&#160; (If you are having trouble seeing&#160;it, you can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/11/what-is-the-most-used-search-engine.html</link>
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		<title>The Trick to Find Nice Images for Any Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have shown in previous posts that blogging is a great way to advertise your website. It&#8217;s easy to say that, but it&#8217;s not so easy to do it! What do I mean by this? Well, even if you know what to post, it&#8217;s hard to make your posts look nice with no images to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/10/the-trick-to-find-nice-images-for-any-post.html</link>
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		<title>Streaming Video vs. Progressive Download</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last post&#160;I briefly went over the many possibilities of getting your video on the web. In today&#8217;s post, I will touch on the server-side of adding video to your site. It&#8217;s easy enough to have a progressive download video on your website; almost any server can do that. A progressive download actually downloads [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/10/streaming-video-vs-progressive-download.html</link>
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		<title>Adding Videos to Your Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I was asked a question, &#8220;Can you put videos on my site?&#8221;&#160; This was not the first time I&#8217;ve been asked this, but it gave me a good idea for a blog article.&#160; To answer the question,&#160;yes!&#160; I have actually had some good experience with video.&#160; Most videos are simply linked, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/10/adding-videos-to-your-website.html</link>
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		<title>Get Your Free Button From AddThis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Visit AddThis.com&#160;to get a free button.&#160; You can embed the button in any blog or website.&#160; It looks just like this: .&#160; You would be surprised to see how many people will bookmark your site on their favorite social media websites. This button is great because it is simple, but yet looks nice on virtually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/10/get-your-free-button-from-addthis.html</link>
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		<title>Social Media Websites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last post I did was on blogging, in today&#8217;s post I want to point out other places you can post tips. There are tons of social media sites out there. You can post all the tips you post on your blog, on social media sites; this will really help market your site. Facebook, MySpace, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/10/social-media-websites.html</link>
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		<title>Blogging: A Great Way to Advertise Your Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the best things I ever did for my company was to create a blog.&#160; Many do not think that their business can have a blog.&#160; They do not really know what to blog about!!&#160; There is probably not a single company that cannot have a blog.&#160; Think about it, every company has new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/10/blogging-a-great-way-to-advertise-your-site.html</link>
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		<title>What Would it Take for Me to Get a Website?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a question I am constantly being asked, &#8220;what would it take and cost me to get a website?&#8221; I think this is a very important question, because in order to get a website, you will need to know this! So, in this post I will try to address this question. The first thing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/10/what-would-it-take-for-me-to-get-a-website.html</link>
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		<title>Web Design &#8211; A Very Important Thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last couple of posts have been about web SEO, which is definitely important.&#160; But,&#160;I think many will lose sight of what is most important for your website&#8230; design.&#160; You see, if you have an extremely good ranking on Google, but don&#8217;t have a nice website&#160;design, you have really accomplished nothing!&#160; Nobody wants to buy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/09/web-design-a-very-important-thing.html</link>
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		<title>Website Grader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So maybe you have a website, but want it graded.&#160; Well, I just found this&#160;really cool site: Website Grader.&#160; Here, you can submit your website and they will give you a grade within minutes!&#160; Website Grader.com grades the web SEO on your site.&#160; Check it out&#8211;it&#8217;s really cool! Also, if you happen to get a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/09/website-grader.html</link>
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		<title>3 Great Places to Submit Your Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people believe that when you submit your site to search engines it increases your ranking on them. Frankly, this is no more than a myth! Submitting your sites to search engines really does nothing because search engines find your site&#8211;you don&#8217;t have to give it to them. There are, however, directories that you can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/09/3-great-places-to-submit-your-site.html</link>
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		<title>Favorite Icons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great news!&#160; Up to now I was able to add a favorite icon to your website, but I didn&#8217;t have the software available to format the icon.&#160; So, formatting the icon was left up to you, this can be very hard, and frankly,&#160;most can&#8217;t do it.&#160; But, I have just found the right software to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/09/favorite-icons.html</link>
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		<title>Forms: A New Feature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever seen a form similar to this?&#160; Ever really wanted to have something like this on your website?&#160; Well your in luck!&#160; A new feature I provide is the creation of forms.&#160; With forms you can have internet veiwers sign&#160;up for newsletters online, do online polls,&#160;password-protect a&#160;webpage, and much more!&#160; You can email me at: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webconstructions.net/blog/2009/09/forms-a-new-feature.html</link>
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