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    <title type="text">Blog</title>
    <subtitle type="text">Blog:Written articles and my personal thoughts on web design, ecommerce, the internet and odd ramblings about life, the universe and everything!</subtitle>
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    <updated>2010-08-24T04:16:04Z</updated>
    <rights>Copyright (c) 2010, Rob</rights>
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    <entry>
      <title>Mojomotor &#45; First impressions</title>
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      <id>tag:blue-dreamer.co.uk,2010:index.php/5.204</id>
      <published>2010-08-24T04:12:03Z</published>
      <updated>2010-08-24T04:16:04Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Rob</name>
            <email>rob@blue-dreamer.co.uk</email>
            <uri>http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk</uri>      </author>

      <category term="Content management"
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        MojoMotor is the new page editor from Ellislab, developers of Expressionengine. Given a very wet weekend last Sunday I stayed in and gave it a closer look.
      ]]></content>
    </entry>

    <entry>
      <title>&#8216;Hidden&#8217; features in Expressionengine 2</title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/hidden-expressionengine-features/" />
      <id>tag:blue-dreamer.co.uk,2010:index.php/5.203</id>
      <published>2010-08-22T22:07:47Z</published>
      <updated>2010-08-23T18:44:48Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Rob</name>
            <email>rob@blue-dreamer.co.uk</email>
            <uri>http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk</uri>      </author>

      <category term="ExpressionEngine"
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        label="ExpressionEngine" />
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        EE2 has a shedload of new features, especially for developers. Not all are widely documented so here's a few you might not know about.
      ]]></content>
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    <entry>
      <title>Is your web browser HTML5 friendly?</title>
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      <id>tag:blue-dreamer.co.uk,2010:index.php/5.202</id>
      <published>2010-08-02T18:08:55Z</published>
      <updated>2010-08-02T18:10:56Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Rob</name>
            <email>rob@blue-dreamer.co.uk</email>
            <uri>http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk</uri>      </author>

      <category term="Software"
        scheme="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/category/software/"
        label="Software" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
        HTML5 introduces lots of new features but many web browsers just aren't up to scratch yet. I tested a few using a new online testing tool.
      ]]></content>
    </entry>

    <entry>
      <title>Cold calling Online PC Care scammers</title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/pc-repair-scammers/" />
      <id>tag:blue-dreamer.co.uk,2010:index.php/5.200</id>
      <published>2010-07-05T19:35:27Z</published>
      <updated>2010-07-29T16:11:28Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Rob</name>
            <email>rob@blue-dreamer.co.uk</email>
            <uri>http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk</uri>      </author>

      <category term="The Internet"
        scheme="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/category/the-internet/"
        label="The Internet" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
        Over the last few months I've been receiving a lot of unsolicited phone calls telling me my computer is full of malware and other problems, and offering to fix them. If you get one of these calls don't be fooled, it's a scam!
      ]]></content>
    </entry>

    <entry>
      <title>The demise of blog comments</title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/the-demise-of-blog-comments/" />
      <id>tag:blue-dreamer.co.uk,2010:index.php/5.199</id>
      <published>2010-06-19T15:33:28Z</published>
      <updated>2010-06-19T15:43:29Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Rob</name>
            <email>rob@blue-dreamer.co.uk</email>
            <uri>http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk</uri>      </author>

      <category term="Content management"
        scheme="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/category/content-management/"
        label="Content management" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
        There's been a noticeable trend in high profile blog turning off blog comments over the last few years. Is this a sign of things to come? Has blog commenting seen it's hayday?
      ]]></content>
    </entry>

    <entry>
      <title>The evil side of SEO</title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/the-evil-side-of-seo/" />
      <id>tag:blue-dreamer.co.uk,2010:index.php/5.198</id>
      <published>2010-06-10T18:56:14Z</published>
      <updated>2010-06-10T18:56:15Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Rob</name>
            <email>rob@blue-dreamer.co.uk</email>
            <uri>http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk</uri>      </author>

      <category term="Site management"
        scheme="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/category/site-management/"
        label="Site management" />
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        Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is one of those things that has become tainted with snakeoil salesmen, scammers and rip off merchants. Every site owner wants their site to be found on search engines but falling foul to SEO scam artists is all too easy nowadays.
      ]]></content>
    </entry>

    <entry>
      <title>MojoMotor &#45; the new CMS from Ellislab</title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/mojomotor-the-new-cms-from-ellislab/" />
      <id>tag:blue-dreamer.co.uk,2010:index.php/5.197</id>
      <published>2010-06-01T21:14:12Z</published>
      <updated>2010-06-05T07:30:14Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Rob</name>
            <email>rob@blue-dreamer.co.uk</email>
            <uri>http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk</uri>      </author>

      <category term="Content management"
        scheme="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/category/content-management/"
        label="Content management" />
      <category term="ExpressionEngine"
        scheme="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/category/expressionengine/"
        label="ExpressionEngine" />
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        Ellislab, the creators of Expressionengine CMS, today announced a new publishing tool called MojoMotor. It's more of a page editor than a true CMS but it looks promising.
      ]]></content>
    </entry>

    <entry>
      <title>How to backup your Jshop database</title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/backup-jshop-database/" />
      <id>tag:blue-dreamer.co.uk,2010:index.php/5.195</id>
      <published>2010-04-23T19:39:10Z</published>
      <updated>2010-04-23T19:40:12Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Rob</name>
            <email>rob@blue-dreamer.co.uk</email>
            <uri>http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk</uri>      </author>

      <category term="Content management"
        scheme="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/category/content-management/"
        label="Content management" />
      <category term="Ecommerce"
        scheme="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/category/ecommerce/"
        label="Ecommerce" />
      <category term="Site management"
        scheme="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/category/site-management/"
        label="Site management" />
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        Imagine waking up one morning and discovering that all your shop data had just disappeared and you had no backup, you'll have lost all your product and order information. Fortunately, backing up your data in Jshop is easy, here's how.
      ]]></content>
    </entry>

    <entry>
      <title>Expressionengine ecommerce with Cartthrob</title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/expressionengine-ecommerce-with-cartthrob/" />
      <id>tag:blue-dreamer.co.uk,2010:index.php/5.194</id>
      <published>2010-04-09T23:11:08Z</published>
      <updated>2010-04-15T22:02:09Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Rob</name>
            <email>rob@blue-dreamer.co.uk</email>
            <uri>http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk</uri>      </author>

      <category term="Ecommerce"
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        label="Ecommerce" />
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        label="ExpressionEngine" />
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        No it's not a "Carry On" style innuendo but an Expressionengine addon that adds powerful shopping cart features.
      ]]></content>
    </entry>

    <entry>
      <title>8 new and updated addons for EE2.0</title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/8-new-and-updated-addons-for-EE2.0/" />
      <id>tag:blue-dreamer.co.uk,2010:index.php/5.193</id>
      <published>2010-03-24T23:17:54Z</published>
      <updated>2010-04-09T21:12:55Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Rob</name>
            <email>rob@blue-dreamer.co.uk</email>
            <uri>http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk</uri>      </author>

      <category term="ExpressionEngine"
        scheme="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/category/expressionengine/"
        label="ExpressionEngine" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
        Now that Expressionengine 2.0 is built on the Codeigniter PHP framework developers have been releasing some interesting addons.
      ]]></content>
    </entry>

    <entry>
      <title>How to write good product descriptions</title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/how-to-write-good-product-descriptions/" />
      <id>tag:blue-dreamer.co.uk,2010:index.php/5.192</id>
      <published>2010-02-14T23:18:57Z</published>
      <updated>2010-02-14T23:20:58Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Rob</name>
            <email>rob@blue-dreamer.co.uk</email>
            <uri>http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk</uri>      </author>

      <category term="Site management"
        scheme="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/category/site-management/"
        label="Site management" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
        Informed customers are more likely to buy your product, yet many ecommerce sites fail to provide essential product information that clinches a sale. Here's a guide to producing good quality product information.
      ]]></content>
    </entry>

    <entry>
      <title>I&#8217;m now a Sitepoint.com mentor!</title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/im-now-a-sitepoint-mentor/" />
      <id>tag:blue-dreamer.co.uk,2010:index.php/5.191</id>
      <published>2010-02-10T00:34:08Z</published>
      <updated>2010-02-11T11:34:09Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Rob</name>
            <email>rob@blue-dreamer.co.uk</email>
            <uri>http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk</uri>      </author>

      <category term="The Internet"
        scheme="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/category/the-internet/"
        label="The Internet" />
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        I got a promotion! Well not really, but I was recently invited to become a forum mentor at one of the busiest webmaster forums on the planet.
      ]]></content>
    </entry>

    <entry>
      <title>Expressionengine 301 redirects made easier</title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/expressionengine-301-redirects-made-easier/" />
      <id>tag:blue-dreamer.co.uk,2010:index.php/5.190</id>
      <published>2010-01-23T22:55:49Z</published>
      <updated>2010-01-25T05:52:51Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Rob</name>
            <email>rob@blue-dreamer.co.uk</email>
            <uri>http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk</uri>      </author>

      <category term="ExpressionEngine"
        scheme="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/category/expressionengine/"
        label="ExpressionEngine" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
        This is a super easy method of generating a list of 301 redirects in Expressionengine. If you have a lot of URL's this might save you some time!
      ]]></content>
    </entry>

    <entry>
      <title>Annoying email disclaimers</title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/annoying-email-disclaimers/" />
      <id>tag:blue-dreamer.co.uk,2009:index.php/5.180</id>
      <published>2009-11-24T18:51:48Z</published>
      <updated>2009-11-24T18:52:49Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Rob</name>
            <email>rob@blue-dreamer.co.uk</email>
            <uri>http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk</uri>      </author>

      <category term="The Internet"
        scheme="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/category/the-internet/"
        label="The Internet" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
        Am I the only one that finds excessive email disclaimers just plain annoying? I know there's a point to them but why try and force feed them to me on every email you send?
      ]]></content>
    </entry>

    <entry>
      <title>Designers &#45; don&#8217;t remove link outlines!</title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/designers-dont-remove-link-outlines/" />
      <id>tag:blue-dreamer.co.uk,2009:index.php/5.179</id>
      <published>2009-11-15T15:57:34Z</published>
      <updated>2009-11-15T23:57:35Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Rob</name>
            <email>rob@blue-dreamer.co.uk</email>
            <uri>http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk</uri>      </author>

      <category term="Web Design"
        scheme="http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/category/web-design/"
        label="Web Design" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
        There's an increasing tendency for some designers to remove the dotted outline from on page links. This causes a major accessibility problem, I wish they wouldn't do it...
      ]]></content>
    </entry>


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