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	<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 21:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Color me beautiful Part 2 – choosing custom colors with your visitors in mind</title>
		<link>http://blog.homestead.com/2008/05/09/color-me-beautiful-part-2-%e2%80%93-choosing-custom-colors-with-your-visitors-in-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.homestead.com/2008/05/09/color-me-beautiful-part-2-%e2%80%93-choosing-custom-colors-with-your-visitors-in-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 21:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry, Product Designer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Good Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SiteBuilder]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SiteBuilder Lite]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of our product designers, Jerry, wrote in January about the nuts and bolts of using Homestead’s color tools. Here he is again to give you the next in his series on color: how to choose good colors for your website design – Rochelle.
Last time I talked about how to use tools like the color [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">building a website with color</media:title>
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		<title>Introducing the new Homestead Photo Gallery</title>
		<link>http://blog.homestead.com/2008/04/22/introducing-the-new-homestead-photo-gallery/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.homestead.com/2008/04/22/introducing-the-new-homestead-photo-gallery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kramer, Product Designer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Good Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SiteBuilder]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://homesteadblog.wordpress.com/?p=175</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve just released a new product we think you’ll like a lot.  Here’s Kramer, the product designer who led the team, to tell you about it – Rochelle.
As anyone who has built a website can tell you, one of the more challenging tasks is figuring out how to effectively convey lots of information in [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Add a Photo Gallery to your website</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Add an image to the website you build</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">spacing your image thumbnail on your website</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://homesteadblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/kramer-pg_blog_stage_01-copy.gif" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">changing the photo gallery shape for your website</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">changing the shape of the photo gallery on your website</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">The image display in the photo gallery on your website</media:title>
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		<title>Make your website search engine friendly – 3 tips for Milton Ridge</title>
		<link>http://blog.homestead.com/2008/04/16/make-your-website-search-engine-friendly-%e2%80%93-3-tips-for-milton-ridge/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.homestead.com/2008/04/16/make-your-website-search-engine-friendly-%e2%80%93-3-tips-for-milton-ridge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidhomestead</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Advanced Features]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SiteBuilder Lite]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Website Marketing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://homesteadblog.wordpress.com/?p=174</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s the second in our series on how to make your site “friendlier” to the search engines your visitors are using to find you.   In an article in the Homestead Newsletter, we offered members an opportunity to submit their sites for a chance at having them analyzed to see how search engine friendly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Form Elements for Fun and Profit</title>
		<link>http://blog.homestead.com/2008/04/05/using-form-elements-for-fun-and-profit/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.homestead.com/2008/04/05/using-form-elements-for-fun-and-profit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rochelle, Director of Products at Homestead</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Good Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SiteBuilder]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tips and Tricks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://homesteadblog.wordpress.com/?p=168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here to talk about one of my favorite elements in SiteBuilder is… me! - Rochelle
People put forms on their websites for all kinds of things – collecting info from their customers or clients, soliciting feedback on their business, even taking basic orders online.  SiteBuilder’s Form Elements are some of our most powerful, since they let [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Rochelle, Director of Products at Homestead</media:title>
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		<title>Mouseover Effects - If Only Magritte Had SiteBuilder&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.homestead.com/2008/03/28/mouseover-effects-if-only-magritte-had-sitebuilder/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.homestead.com/2008/03/28/mouseover-effects-if-only-magritte-had-sitebuilder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam, Product Designer</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[SiteBuilder]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tips and Tricks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.homestead.com/?p=157</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
The above painting, The Treachery of Images, is by Rene Magritte. The French caption translates to &#8220;This is not a pipe&#8221;. The caption seems to contradict the subject, but not really. That&#8217;s not a pipe&#8230;it&#8217;s a picture of a pipe. You can&#8217;t stuff it with tobacco and you can&#8217;t smoke it.
OK, ready for a seamless [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Sam, Product Designer</media:title>
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		<title>SEO checkup - Luminous Day Spa</title>
		<link>http://blog.homestead.com/2008/03/24/seo-checkup-luminous-day-spa/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.homestead.com/2008/03/24/seo-checkup-luminous-day-spa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rochelle, Product Director at Homestead</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Good Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SiteBuilder]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SiteBuilder Lite]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tips and Tricks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Website Marketing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.homestead.com/?p=164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m excited to introduce a new feature to the Homestead Product Blog that we plan on making a regular thing – SEO analysis of members’ sites.  We ran an article in the latest Homestead Newsletter about Search Engine optimization (SEO), and offered members a chance to submit their sites so we could choose one [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Rochelle, Product Director at Homestead</media:title>
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		<title>Get found with the Homestead Directory</title>
		<link>http://blog.homestead.com/2008/03/19/get-found-with-the-homestead-directory/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.homestead.com/2008/03/19/get-found-with-the-homestead-directory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amr, Marketing Manager at Homestead</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tips and Tricks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Website Marketing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.homestead.com/?p=154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve been working hard behind the scenes on some exciting products to help our members get more visitors to their websites.  Here’s Amr &#38; Lindsay to tell you about one of the latest- Rochelle 
A short while ago we released an online directory that is exclusively open to Homestead member sites.  Only Homestead [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Amr, Marketing Manager at Homestead</media:title>
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		<title>Some pictures are worth more words than others - Part II</title>
		<link>http://blog.homestead.com/2008/02/29/some-pictures-are-worth-more-words-than-others-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.homestead.com/2008/02/29/some-pictures-are-worth-more-words-than-others-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rochelle, Product Director at Homestead</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Good Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tips and Tricks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.homestead.com/?p=128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s our creative guru Ron again with the second part of his series on tips for choosing good imagery for your site – Rochelle.
A few posts ago I gave you some tips for picking good photos from the Homestead Image Library. Those tips also work well for other online sources of photographs and illustrations. But [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Rochelle, Product Director at Homestead</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://homesteadblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/ronblog2-_istockphoto.jpg" medium="image">
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		<title>Punch things up a bit with Image Effect</title>
		<link>http://blog.homestead.com/2008/02/26/punch-things-up-a-bit-with-image-effect/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.homestead.com/2008/02/26/punch-things-up-a-bit-with-image-effect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rochelle, Product Director at Homestead</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Good Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SiteBuilder]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tips and Tricks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://homesteadblog.wordpress.com/?p=148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our support specialists spend their days answering a lot of questions about website functionality and design, so they have unique insight into things you can do with SiteBuilder that aren&#8217;t widely known.  Here&#8217;s Ben to tell you about one of his favorites - Rochelle
I think one of the most underutilized elements in SiteBuilder is [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Rochelle, Product Director at Homestead</media:title>
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		<title>Linking an existing domain to your website: in black and white</title>
		<link>http://blog.homestead.com/2008/02/15/linking-an-existing-domain-to-your-website-in-black-and-white/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.homestead.com/2008/02/15/linking-an-existing-domain-to-your-website-in-black-and-white/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rochelle, Product Director at Homestead</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Advanced Features]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Homestead Site]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lindsay, one of our product designers, minored in film in college. See if her parents’ money was well-spent by checking out her short film on managing your domain – Rochelle.
Many of our customers already own a domain name (e.g. www.fische.com) before they create a website with us. There are a couple of options for connecting [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Rochelle, Product Director at Homestead</media:title>
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