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	<link>http://www.edtechblog.org</link>
	<description>Laura B. Dahl&#039;s technology tips and tricks</description>
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		<title>Reporting Statistics</title>
		<link>http://www.edtechblog.org/2010/01/reporting-statistics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Statistics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ph.D. Comic&#8217;s latest comic pleas for more responsible reporting of numbers and statistics. I second this plea.

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		<title>Web Design Elements that Users Look For</title>
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		<comments>http://www.edtechblog.org/2010/01/web-design-elements-that-users-look-for/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[User Interface Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[webdesign]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jakob Nielsen&#8217;s and Kara Pernice&#8217;s new book on &#8220;Eyetracking Web Usability&#8221; has proven some ideas for necessary element placement on your web pages. This book shows eyetracking data on the most important elements that you should place on all your web pages and where to place them.

Perceptible menus, with some graphic or color delineation, across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Westminster College teaching starts tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.edtechblog.org/2010/01/westminster-college-teaching-starts-tomorrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Color]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Westminster College]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am starting my new career as adjunct faculty at Westminster College tomorrow. I have 15 students in my Web Design &#38; Production class. All students are Master&#8217;s students and many are new to web design.
I am very excited to start teaching these students. It should be a lot of fun, and I really look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Design and EdTechBlog free information now combined</title>
		<link>http://www.edtechblog.org/2010/01/web-design-and-edtechblog-free-information-now-combined/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edtechblog.org/2010/01/web-design-and-edtechblog-free-information-now-combined/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Professional Web Design and Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[webdesign]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edtechblog.org/?p=1834</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just uploaded a custom Wordpress theme for http://www.edtechblog.org that adds our web design service and free and premium Wordpress themes to the already popular blog posts found on this site.
Now that I have time to write up more code and to share more web design tips, you will see a lot more here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Offer Reasonably Priced Web Design &amp; Development Services</title>
		<link>http://www.edtechblog.org/2009/12/we-offer-web-design-services/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edtechblog.org/2009/12/we-offer-web-design-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Professional Web Design and Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We offer comprehensive web design and web development services for individuals or small businesses.  We have over 15 years experience developing interactive and dynamic sites that attract many visitors. Please consider our services by submitting a quote request.  We are also offering very reasonably priced Wordpress and Moodle prebuilt themes and help installing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reserved Characters in HTML</title>
		<link>http://www.edtechblog.org/2009/12/reserved-characters-in-html/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edtechblog.org/2009/12/reserved-characters-in-html/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HTML]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are several characters that you cannot type directly  into HTML. You must use code to represent those characters. you can use either the entity number or the entity name in your code.



Character
Entity Number
Entity Name
Description


&#8220;
&#38;#34;
&#38;quot;
quotation mark


&#8216;
&#38;#39;
&#38;apos; (does not work in IE)
apostrophe


&#38;
&#38;#38;
&#38;amp;
ampersand


&#60;
&#38;#60;
&#38;lt;
less-than


&#62;
&#38;#62;
&#38;gt;
greater-than



You embed these codes into your HTML:

110 &#38;lt; 150 &#38;amp; 150 &#38;gt; 110

To give you:
110 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Major Wordpress Meltdown</title>
		<link>http://www.edtechblog.org/2009/12/major-wordpress-meltdown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edtechblog.org/2009/12/major-wordpress-meltdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I apologize. This blog had a major meltdown the past couple of days.  I had to reinstall Wordpress, and this resulted in some of my posts getting corrupted.  Please be patient with me while I update the nonsensical code found on some posts.
In addition, some of the most important plugins were the naughty bits of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web design for your users, not for you</title>
		<link>http://www.edtechblog.org/2009/11/web-design-for-your-users/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edtechblog.org/2009/11/web-design-for-your-users/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[webdesign]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I see many blogs and articles that teach you how to use the latest technology tricks and how to use marketing techniques on your site. However, research on human-computer interaction has found that design of web sites should be based on user needs and goals. If you base your site design on user needs, then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updates to IE 9 will help web designers</title>
		<link>http://www.edtechblog.org/2009/11/updates-to-ie-9/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edtechblog.org/2009/11/updates-to-ie-9/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[webdesign]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet explorer development team has announced that they are working copy of their upcoming browser will better support web design standards and CSS 3. You can find their announcement on the MSDN blog.
They announced improved performance in the browser. Improved performance will come as a result of graphics acceleration from the graphics card; this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHP and MySQL on Snow Leopard</title>
		<link>http://www.edtechblog.org/2009/11/php-and-mysql-on-snow-leopard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edtechblog.org/2009/11/php-and-mysql-on-snow-leopard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[webdesign]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edtechblog.org/?p=1712</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got PHP and MySQL working on my computer.  I am now restarting my web development business and I needed a test server running on my computer.  Apache 2 and PHP 5.3 come already installed and compiled on Mac Snow Leopard.
I followed the great tutorial found on www.dwfaq.info. I had to move [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Positioning Web Page Elements</title>
		<link>http://www.edtechblog.org/2009/11/positioning-web-page-elements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edtechblog.org/2009/11/positioning-web-page-elements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CSS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HTML]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edtechblog.org/?p=1676</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What is Positioning?
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) positioning properties allow you to position an element. It can also place an element behind another, and specify what should happen when an element&#8217;s content is too big.
Elements can be positioned using the top, bottom, left, and right properties. However, these properties will not work unless the position [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a hyperlink to a specific area in a webpage</title>
		<link>http://www.edtechblog.org/2009/10/internal-hyperlink/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edtechblog.org/2009/10/internal-hyperlink/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HTML]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You can specify a hyperlink to go to a specific area on a webpage (try it out). These types of links are often used on long pages when you want your user to quickly jump to another section on a webpage.
Create a target
you start by creating a destination for the jump link. Just like a [...]]]></description>
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