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		<title>What to Consider When Building a Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 05:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahsan R. Shami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It often happens that a client comes in looking for a redesign, and they don&#8217;t really know why they want it. One of the reasons is that it looks old and, that&#8217;s decent enough motivation. But, it can&#8217;t be the only thing driving the decision. It quite regularly is though. With new sites, there&#8217;s often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mozilla Add-ons Site Breaks in Chrome v2?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 07:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahsan R. Shami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if I&#8217;m the only seeing this. I was using Google Chrome v2 earlier today to browse the Mozilla Add-ons site and noticed that it wasn&#8217;t rendering correctly. I checked the same site in Firefox v3 (and IE 7) and it seemed to looked okay, which got me wondering about why Chrome&#8217;s not displaying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fantastic Labels to Help Stop Bad Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 10:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahsan R. Shami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fantastic set of labels to help stop bad design. Print on sticker paper and use liberally. http://www.design-police.org/&#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Ambigrams Make for Trippy Typography</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 00:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahsan R. Shami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wired has a cool piece on ambigrams and typography called,&#160; &#8220;Two Ways: Calligraphy With a Twist.&#8220; Kinda makes you want to load up Freehand (yes, I still use it) and start fiddling around with font paths! Extract: The phrase to the left can be read two ways: right side up and upside down. It&#8217;s called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Barely Average Design Site is Live!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our new site â€” barely average design â€” is now live: http://www.barelyaverage.com]]></description>
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		<title>Go Dark and Save the Environment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahsan R. Shami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The online buzz over &#8220;going dark&#8221; began in earnest last January after Mark Ontkush, a self-described &#8220;green computing evangelist,&#8221; wrote a blog post concerning environmentally friendly Web design. Ontkush claimed that if a popular site such as Google switched its home page background color from white to black, it could save hundreds of megawatt hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unfold the Fold</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahsan R. Shami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really enjoyed reading this post over at Boxes and Arrows, because I&#8217;ve long held the belief that users aren&#8217;t resentful of scrolling. I haven&#8217;t really looked for any data to back up the assertion, so it wasn&#8217;t something I&#8217;d pick a fight about, but instinct said that the web had evolved enough in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Not Sure I Really Wanted to Win!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 16:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahsan R. Shami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tara over at graphic design blog started a Design Bloopers Competition contest a few weeks ago. Below is what I decided to enter, against my better judgement. What would &#8216;better judgement&#8217; be? Bury the incident and pretend it never happened! About six months ago, while I was still in the employ of an agency and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poyner, Vinh and Bad Design Blogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 13:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahsan R. Shami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is by Rick Poyner. It&#8217;s an article in Print Magazine about how design blogs are generally low in quality. The biggest single problem with blogs as a medium for writing is the very thing that bloggers tend to love them for: the lack of editors. Itâ€™s naive to imagine that you can just sit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anyone Else Find These Too Similar?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 04:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahsan R. Shami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To be honest, when I looked at the new Sitemeter logo, I immediately thought it was a knock-off of the Cisco logo. Upon looking at them side-by-side, they&#8217;re different enough for me to not make strange faces and wonder aloud, &#8220;Why?&#8221; From what I recall about the history of the Cisco logo, the new one [...]]]></description>
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