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<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>I am a website designer and web developer based in Ballymena , Northern Ireland. 

I write articles in the articles section of my website, so I use this tumblog to store snippets of goodness about web design, web strategy, web development with maybe some online marketing for good measure. 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Still , like all frameworks its a great starting point&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/13467342362</link><guid>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/13467342362</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:40:50 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>CDN Speed Test</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.cloudclimate.com/cdn-speed-test/?utm_source=loadimpact - all users&amp;utm_campaign=16e4af375e-newsletter_18&amp;utm_medium=email"&gt;CDN Speed Test&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Thinking about using CDN for a client check out this test first!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/13257161672</link><guid>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/13257161672</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:50:08 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>4 Reasons Paypal Doesn't Deserve Your Money | Business Pundit</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.businesspundit.com/4-reasons-paypal-doesnt-deserve-your-money/"&gt;4 Reasons Paypal Doesn't Deserve Your Money | Business Pundit&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;So we should be looking at alternatives&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/12944590391</link><guid>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/12944590391</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:59:53 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Securing Your WordPress Website</title><description>&lt;a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmashingMagazine/~3/QLkEeJ1q1oU/"&gt;Securing Your WordPress Website&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Useful security tips for wordpress users&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/12807741009</link><guid>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/12807741009</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:15:40 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Stripe</title><description>&lt;a href="https://stripe.com/"&gt;Stripe&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Online payment providers who get it, at last!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/11058756521</link><guid>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/11058756521</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:40:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Tiered, Adaptive Front-end Experiences « Paul Irish</title><description>&lt;a href="http://paulirish.com/2011/tiered-adaptive-front-end-experiences/"&gt;Tiered, Adaptive Front-end Experiences « Paul Irish&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Why websites shouldn’t look the same on all browsers&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/10849216428</link><guid>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/10849216428</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:36:32 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>The Cisco Brand Identity Book and Guidelines</title><description>&lt;a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/imjustcreative/~3/7aGoU1oSlZc/"&gt;The Cisco Brand Identity Book and Guidelines&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Good inspiration for a thorough brand identity should you need to create one for a client, thanks Graham&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/10770140765</link><guid>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/10770140765</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:53:51 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Fork the Open Source CMS</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fork-cms.com/"&gt;Fork the Open Source CMS&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Might be worth a look. Alternative to some of the other more established CMS’s on offer like wordpress, concrete5, cushyCMS, Pixie, ModX, EE and so on…&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/10275569783</link><guid>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/10275569783</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:22:01 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Normalize.css: Make browsers render all elements more consistently.</title><description>&lt;a href="http://necolas.github.com/normalize.css/"&gt;Normalize.css: Make browsers render all elements more consistently.&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Normalise your CSS. Use this file as a starting point from which to customise your CSS as you want it. Unlike many reset.css offerings it doesn’t remove useful defaults&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/9917369659</link><guid>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/9917369659</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:02:10 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>HTML5 Video Player | VideoJS</title><description>&lt;a href="http://videojs.com/"&gt;HTML5 Video Player | VideoJS&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Sterling work and a great video resource that keeps up with the constant changes in our industry&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/9645372967</link><guid>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/9645372967</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:50:50 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers</title><description>&lt;a href="http://photoshopetiquette.com/"&gt;The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Some great best practices for aspiring web designers&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/9568180831</link><guid>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/9568180831</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:09:36 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Everything you wanted to know about online marketing in 2011...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqhfk1lPov1qze4aeo1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Everything you wanted to know about online marketing in 2011 (BTW in about 3 months this will be out of date! so keep track of how the industry is changing)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(via &lt;a href="http://unbounce.com/noob-guide-to-online-marketing-infographic/"&gt;The Noob Guide to Online Marketing – A beginners guide to internet marketing [INFOGRAPHIC] | Unbounce&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/9372124124</link><guid>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/9372124124</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:50:23 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Breaking The Rules: A UX Case Study - Smashing Magazine</title><description>&lt;a href="http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/17/breaking-the-rules-a-ux-case-study/"&gt;Breaking The Rules: A UX Case Study - Smashing Magazine&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Why do we test? Should we just copy old paradigms blindly? I mean as a client once said to me “if X use it then I think we should just do what they do, their website looks like it has been done by experts” (I didn’t take this observation personally, having 14 years experience in the industry I have learned to be humble and shed my ego, lol) - Little did they know it was quite simply the end result of a production line designer churning out more of the same untested out-dated paradigms. Web governance is now my mission we MUST educate our clients and if we can’t get through move on to help those we can get through to.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/9060888138</link><guid>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/9060888138</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:21:07 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Golden Grid System</title><description>&lt;a href="http://goldengridsystem.com/"&gt;Golden Grid System&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;A folding grid for responsive design, oh how love the constant progression in our industry. As my daughter would say, “its citing”&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/9060686749</link><guid>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/9060686749</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:16:24 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>(via 20 years of Linux [Infographic] — Tech News and Analysis)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq3ngspRAt1qze4aeo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;(via &lt;a href="http://gigaom.com/2011/08/16/20-years-of-linux/"&gt;20 years of Linux [Infographic] — Tech News and Analysis&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/9060621320</link><guid>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/9060621320</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:14:52 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Gridless - An awesome boilerplate for responsive, cross-browser websites</title><description>&lt;a href="http://thatcoolguy.github.com/gridless-boilerplate/#intro"&gt;Gridless - An awesome boilerplate for responsive, cross-browser websites&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;HTML5 and CSS3 framework for responsive design&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/6502269312</link><guid>http://blog.daveharrison.net/post/6502269312</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:01:40 +0100</pubDate></item></channel></rss>

