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		<title>Is it time yet?</title>
		<link>http://spinnakersystems.com/blog/?p=74</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 13:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The ecomony is in the toilet, Chrysler has declared bankrupcy, GM may declare any day now and most businesses are hunkered down counting what few pennies remain. Time to rein in all of your expenses and ride it out is certainly one way to look at things.
There is another&#8230;..
Cautiously expand!
I&#8217;m completely off my rocker and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A picture is worth a 1000 words</title>
		<link>http://spinnakersystems.com/blog/?p=70</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Load times on a web site are one of the more critical elements that attract/deter customers
If your web site takes a long time to load, your customers will get frustrated and will go elsewhere.
Yes, I know it looks &#8220;fabulous dahling&#8221;, but the main aim is to attract and keep customers, and if you fail in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO Facts and fiction</title>
		<link>http://spinnakersystems.com/blog/?p=63</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are adverts all over the net for SEO
&#8220;Top listing in Google only $19.95&#8243;
&#8220;Get listed on 3000 search engines for only $9.95&#8243;
&#8220;Guaranteed results in 24 hours&#8221;
The only thing I can say about these are that you get what you pay for, which is basically nothing. While someone may submit your site to 3000 search engines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-Mail - a boon or a bust?</title>
		<link>http://spinnakersystems.com/blog/?p=57</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is dreary monday, and we are helping a client out of an e-mail situation.
This client has a large, somewhat non-tech savvy membership, and everyone has their own web-email. A lot of their members don&#8217;t monitor their e-mail and now the server has started to hiccup due to being clogged up with SPAM.
It&#8217;s the curse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A note to our American Friends</title>
		<link>http://spinnakersystems.com/blog/?p=51</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian dollar is taking a high dive against the US dollar. I really don&#8217;t know why the US dollar is so strong, but then I design web-sites, I&#8217;m not a banker - thank goodness.
Is there a silver lining to all of this? Yes there is.
What this should mean is that the US market should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Design in an economic crunch</title>
		<link>http://spinnakersystems.com/blog/?p=48</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 2008 and the stockmarket is in the toilet. There is talk about a global recession, and everyone is using superglue to ensure their wallets stay closed.
You run a small business and are looking to trim your budget, so the first thing you look at is your web-site. It&#8217;s not part of your brick and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save yourself some grief</title>
		<link>http://spinnakersystems.com/blog/?p=47</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You are about to start on the road to having a web presence and are talking to a number of design companies about your site.
Save yourself some grief and negotiate the following:

At the end of the development you get ALL source for your web-site, including the source for all media, both static and interactive
If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where to begin</title>
		<link>http://spinnakersystems.com/blog/?p=46</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 04:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So you are looking for a web-development company to create your on-line presence are you?
How do you go about it so that you don&#8217;t end up in a spiralling cost scenario, or end up dealing with an organization that won&#8217;t be there for you in the long run.
Let&#8217;s face it, developing a web site isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To style or not to style that is the question</title>
		<link>http://spinnakersystems.com/blog/?p=45</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As an active web developer. I tend to look into all avenues for enabling me to produce a quality product at a reasonable price.
Some of the things that I stress to clients revolve around making their sites simple, maintainable and consistent in  look and feel.
Consistency is a factor that can be easily overlooked, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not really surprising</title>
		<link>http://spinnakersystems.com/blog/?p=44</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Enough is enough - it&#8217;s a cartoon!
Muslim clerics have been complaining in the press about Islamophobia, which I roughtly translate as &#8220;fear of Islam&#8221;. Gentlemen, when one of your own is talking publicly about offering a reward and a free car to the person who kills this cartoonist, does this really surprise you?
There is a [...]]]></description>
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