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		<title>Use keywords in your offline advertising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If we accept (and we should) that websites are a part of our marketing mix, the online part, then we are all probably doing some offline marketing, right?  Here&#8217;s an interesting angle on how online and offline marketing can connect.

When people see passing adverts, do they remember the url of the web address?  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blotdesign.com/writing/use-keywords-in-your-offline-advertising</link>
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		<title>Margin problem in  Firefox and Safari</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We came across a problem the other day using margin-top with Firefox and Safari.  It occurs when you have a containing div with a background followed immediately by another div with margin-top.  For example:


&#60;div style=&#34;background-color:#FF0000; height:80px;&#34;&#62;
&#60;div style=&#34;margin-top:40px; background-color:transparent; &#34;&#62;
content here 40px down
&#60;/div&#62;
&#60;/div&#62;

The problem in Firefox and Safari is that the margin of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blotdesign.com/writing/margin-problem-in-firefox-and-safari</link>
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		<title>New version of the Blot CMS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last six months, we&#8217;ve been working on a new version of the Blot Content Management System (CMS).  The enhancements are a mix of things we&#8217;ve planned and items you have requested.  
The overriding considerations for all the improvements have been (and always will be), 

keeping things as simple as possible for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blotdesign.com/writing/new-version-of-the-blot-cms</link>
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		<title>Men in skirts fund-raise for Moebius Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a great story that&#8217;s got nothing to do with web design, software or marketing.
Two of our friends and customers are undertaking a charity trip of a lifetime that evokes memories of the Easy Rider movie.  
In late June this year, Colin Read and Iain Whyte are going to motorcycle across the USA from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blotdesign.com/writing/men-in-skirts-fund-raise-for-moebius-research</link>
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		<title>Watch out for PNGs on IE6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PNG is a good image format for web design in certain circumstances - a bit like gifs - good for images with blocks of same colour, no lossieness etc.  They can also have a transparency attribute which can make them very useful.  One thing to watch out for if you are still supporting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blotdesign.com/writing/watch-out-for-pngs-on-ie6</link>
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