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		<title>Embedding web fonts with @font-face kits</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Sookram</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first reaction on finding Font Squirrel's free @font-face kits was pure joy. Here were completely free fonts licensed for use on the web. You can embed these fonts into your site and it will show up in every major browser, including Internet Explorer 6. What is @font-face? For the uninitiated, @font-face is a property [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Content-first HTML templates</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Sookram</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Content first layouts can increase search engine visibility by placing your header and navigation area after the main content area in HTML. CSS can reposition the elements so they appear at the top of the page. What is a content-first layout? Most pages look like this to a search engine spider or screen reader: My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customizing WordPress archives page</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Sookram</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[php]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanishdesign.com/articles/?p=229</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So I finally got around to customizing my archive.php page. I wanted links to single posts rather than list full posts for pages and pages. Editing the loop was easy enough &#8212; I just pared down the loop code to make a list of permalinks. The tough part was getting every post to show up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integrate WordPress in existing site without copying anything</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Sookram</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[php]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ssi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[themes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanishdesign.com/articles/?p=214</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WordPress does something strange with the php include() statement. I don't exactly know why, but I get a lengthy error if I try to use it in a WordPress theme. The popular solution is to sit down and carefully copy and paste chunks from your website into a new wordpress theme. I'm here to fix [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop reading this</title>
		<link>http://vanishdesign.com/articles/web_design/stop-reading-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Sookram</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[usability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanishdesign.com/articles/?p=199</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A trend keeps popping up that irks the usability geek in me: instructions on where users should be looking. Here's an example from Yahoo News: Basically here they're saying "you're looking in the wrong place. What you need is up there." This kind of execution wouldn't fly in print, why do it online, where you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The worst way to style your visited links</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Sookram</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[css]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[usability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visited links]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Generally, paying attention to the a:visited property is good. In some cases, styling the visited link is detrimental to the user experience. Here's a comment on designer David Airey's blog: Justin Pease, a web designer, has a link to his site. Once I click the link, it turns dark grey and loses its bolding. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The second worst way to style your visited links</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Sookram</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanishdesign.com/articles/?p=179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since CSS became popular, people have moved further away from the blue underlined links that were universally understood. Styling your site is your prerogative, and styling your links can help bring about a sense of identity. Often, the bright blue links just don't suit a site's color scheme. The purple visited links are even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customizing WordPress permalinks, removing /category/</title>
		<link>http://vanishdesign.com/articles/wordpress/customizing-wordpress-permalinks-removing-category/</link>
		<comments>http://vanishdesign.com/articles/wordpress/customizing-wordpress-permalinks-removing-category/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Sookram</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[custom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hacks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanishdesign.com/articles/?p=166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post assumes you have WordPress's "pretty permalinks" set up already and have configured your htaccess file. Some people don't like the date-based structure of WordPress's "pretty permalinks." Personally, I think it'd be more valuable for SEO to have a link that looks like this: /blog/categoryname/post-title/ than the wordpress standard, which is: /blog/year/month/day/post-title/. From a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photoshop: quick black &amp; white preview</title>
		<link>http://vanishdesign.com/articles/web_design/photoshop-monochrome-preview/</link>
		<comments>http://vanishdesign.com/articles/web_design/photoshop-monochrome-preview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Sookram</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cs3]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of big name designers think it's a great idea to look at your layouts in black and white to get a more clear idea of spacing, hierarchy and contrast. This is a quick way to work in monochrome in photoshop: Go to the Layers palette and make sure you have the topmost layer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using ALT tags properly in emails and XHTML</title>
		<link>http://vanishdesign.com/articles/web_design/using-alt-tags-properly-email-xhtml/</link>
		<comments>http://vanishdesign.com/articles/web_design/using-alt-tags-properly-email-xhtml/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Sookram</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Email]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accessibility]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ALT tags are heavily misunderstood. ALT tags are great for accessibility and slower connections, but they are often misused. This is a big trend in emails I've received lately: This is what I see before I click "show images in this email." In other words, this is what everyone sees first. No one should be [...]]]></description>
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