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	<title>Is there any money left?</title>
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	<description>The internet, and my part in its downfall</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 18:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Breaking an International News Story was fun!</title>
		<link>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/05/12/breaking-an-international-news-story-was-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 18:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>annabelt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What an insane couple of weeks I&#8217;ve had - sometimes everything happens at once!

One of the sites I&#8217;ve been working on at my part time job, which has seemed to be about to launch for months, has finally taken the plunge. My uncle asked me to set up a gallery for their wedding photos, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do I really miss my Second Life character?</title>
		<link>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/04/25/do-i-really-miss-my-second-life-character/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>annabelt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For a while I was testing out the virtual world / MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game) that is Second Life, just exploring and trying to figure out what it was about. I had a window in the background all the time, where my character was dancing around, camping and earning Linden Dollars at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still fixing and tuning the website, but also collected my car stickers</title>
		<link>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/04/25/still-fixing-and-tuning-the-website-but-also-collected-my-car-stickers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/04/25/still-fixing-and-tuning-the-website-but-also-collected-my-car-stickers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>annabelt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary: I kept a diary while launching a Devon business directory / community website. This is part of it.
Diary from 4th Oct 2007:  Collected my car window stickers from Devon Signs. They actually look really good, very clear. But I do feel a little nervous still about advertising to the people around me, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I find some advice on directories from Webmaster World</title>
		<link>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/04/22/i-find-some-advice-on-directories-from-webmaster-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/04/22/i-find-some-advice-on-directories-from-webmaster-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>annabelt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Directories]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Stairway to Devon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Diary from Thurs 4th Oct 2007: Read some directory related threads on Webmaster world - looks like many people have a hard time with these, but it was comforting to read these posts from people further down the road&#8230;

One recommendation I will definitely follow is to add companies yourself. (see the thread here: http://www.webmasterworld.com/directories/3404944.htm )
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pizza (.com) sells for $2.6 million</title>
		<link>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/04/19/pizza-com-sells-for-26-million/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/04/19/pizza-com-sells-for-26-million/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>annabelt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[14 years ago, Chris Clark, who now runs an American software company, bought the &#8216;pizza.com&#8217; domain for just $20. He thought it would help him get a contract with a pizza company&#8230; 

Well I guess it did in the end, but a much better one than he was originally hoping for - after hearing illion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I experience the horrors of Google PageRank 0 and miss the point of my stress course&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/04/19/i-experience-the-horrors-of-google-pagerank-0-and-miss-the-point-of-my-stress-course/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/04/19/i-experience-the-horrors-of-google-pagerank-0-and-miss-the-point-of-my-stress-course/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>annabelt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Directories]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/?p=49</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Background: I’ve been launching and promoting Stairway to Devon, a Web 2.0 Devon business directory. 
I threw myself in at the deep end with this: it was my first completed Joomla / Web 2.0 site and had a budget of practically zero (I practised things on it for work!). It was also my first experience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning a corner with my web directory: a change in focus and attitude</title>
		<link>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/04/10/turning-a-corner-with-my-web-directory-a-change-in-focus-and-attitude/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/04/10/turning-a-corner-with-my-web-directory-a-change-in-focus-and-attitude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>annabelt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Background: I’ve been launching and promoting Stairway to Devon, a Web 2.0 Devon directory, which promotes arts and environmental concerns alongside general clubs, blogs and business listings. Things had been through a stressful and stormy patch, but I think these few days in the diary mark a turning point, during which my attitude changed and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experiments with social bookmarking: the beginning</title>
		<link>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/04/06/experiments-with-social-bookmarking-the-beginning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/04/06/experiments-with-social-bookmarking-the-beginning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>annabelt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Web 2.0 just a load of hype? I have my suspicions that it doesn&#8217;t make money, but some aspects do have potential for website owners. Both RSS Feeds and social bookmarking seem promising to me (at least, if it&#8217;s Facebook, now that so many people are on Facebook). So I thought I&#8217;d give it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of an online community?</title>
		<link>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/04/03/the-end-of-an-online-community/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/04/03/the-end-of-an-online-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>annabelt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Spam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A sad thing has happened: an online community website I have visited on and off for the last couple of years appears to have finally given up the ghost. Personally I blame Digg (where some of the members turned up instead) and Facebook, which had a massive rise in popularity last summer (when I found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Promoting a new directory: The worst of times</title>
		<link>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/04/03/promoting-a-new-directory-the-worst-of-times/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/04/03/promoting-a-new-directory-the-worst-of-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>annabelt</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Website Testing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Launching a new web directory, continued from previous posts)
This was the worst period so far, encompassing more trouble with rival sites, face to face sales, dynamic content causing unexpected layout breakages, and unexpected reserves of grim determination&#8230;

26/9 Made some calls to find out more about this rival website. It turns out it wasn&#8217;t the school [...]]]></description>
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