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	<description>Boulder, Colorado Print and Website Design</description>
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		<title>All CMS&#8217;s are not created equal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following question has come up time and time again, especially in the past few years, with the increasing popularity of the Content Management System (CMS): Which CMS is better? Drupal or WordPress? Drupal and WordPress are both CMS&#8217;s (for lack of a better word) but they are not the same. There are pros and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ring a ding dong!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So&#8230;wedding season can be a blast! I celebrated my own this summer and it was just that. The wedding market is a huge one for sure. I have been commissioned on several occasions to design wedding invitations, and I must warn you of the dangers of this particular field. Most people, by nature, are relatively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crowdsourcing: Friend or Foe?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had never heard of this term &#8220;crowdsourcing&#8221; before until a colleague mentioned it to me a couple of months ago, which raised a lot of questions about the value placed on quality design. In the many years that I have been working as a designer, one of the biggest things that I have and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Great Adventure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been a creative person my entire life. I think the art of creativity is a powerful one, and can apply to more than just tangible objects. While I adore design in all forms, as well as fine art, I also love how creativity can help you accomplish certain tasks. I love music for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I-PHONE Revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am so excited to announce that I have just created my first I-phone application design, which will soon venture into the infamous I-pod and I-pad products. It still blows my mind how quickly technology changes and updates itself over time, seemingly exponentially. The launch date of the application is still TBD (probably sometime in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blast From the Past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every so often I need to clean house. I think its important to purge ourselves of the unnecessary &#8220;stuff&#8221; that piles up over time. Its amazing how refreshing it can be to let go of it. I like to do this to my work space as well as my living space, as it tends to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year, New Beginnings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m really excited to embark on a brand new year. This week is my 1 year anniversary of my decision to be my own boss, and run my own company full-time. It was an interesting year full of ups and downs, and mostly learning experiences. I found new strengths that I never knew I possessed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back To Basics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever find that you need to hit the refresh button on yourself? Sometimes we can get caught up in the flow of our lives and our work, forgetting to reflect. I find that when I am most busy, I lose sight of the important &#8220;basics&#8221; especially in design. Design is ever-changing, especially on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basic Rules for Good Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People often ask me how I manage to run my own company. I have been operating under the same principals since the beginning of my professional career (many years ago). Time and time again, I have seen &#8220;design&#8221; companies (small and large) struggle to keep their clients happy. What I realized is that the most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jillblandforddesigns.com/archives/326</link>
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		<title>CMS&#8217;s Make Web Development Easy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is exciting how easy it can be to develop a fully functioning website with high quality standards, without big budget dollars! I am a designer, who has dabbled with the various and ever-changing technologies that encircle &#8220;web development&#8221; for the last 6 years. Now that the internet is pretty much at the tip of [...]]]></description>
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