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	<description>Melbourne Website Designer is a blog by leading small business web expert, Dan Norris</description>
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		<title>Importance of the Melbourne Site Designer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 22:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Managing a decent site is really complex specially if your subject is just not into technology and computers. Nonetheless, in the vast expanding technology, it is important to go along with the brand new innovation and type to succeed. Just like having a great looking web site to your personal organization. Almost any companies nowadays have their very own internet site to help them turn out to be well-liked and known by individuals not merely in their neighborhood region but also reaching distinct metropolitan areas across the planet. If you’re living in Australia or in any close by country, you’re [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Managing a decent site is really complex specially if your subject is just not into technology and computers. Nonetheless, in the vast expanding technology, it is important to go along with the brand new innovation and type to succeed. Just like having a great looking web site to your personal organization. Almost any companies nowadays have their very own internet site to help them turn out to be well-liked and known by individuals not merely in their neighborhood region but also reaching distinct metropolitan areas across the planet.</p>
<p>If you’re living in Australia or in any close by country, you’re lucky since you will find lots of excellent skilled web site designer there, specifically in Melbourne. Finding a fantastic Melbourne website designer will assist you to 90% of one&#8217;s web site and the other 10% is for you to publish the data or particulars of your enterprise.</p>
<p>Selecting a Melbourne site designer can save your time. Instead of paying hrs of configuring your web site, you are able to now focus in more critical points like your company. Posting movies, pictures, new music and several other particulars may be accomplished easily using a site designer. Adding plug ins and opt ins will also be included, which could surprisingly appeal to your viewers to subscribe for your web site.</p>
<p>Having a dependable web site designer can conserve you from spam email messages as well as other unwanted aspect that could annoy you from being the internet site proprietor. A expert site designer knows how you can manage spam messages and may differentiate an excellent from a poor outlook of one&#8217;s internet site. They can also allow you to choose whether or not you desire to include flash photos or simply a straightforward 1 that which loads quicker.</p>
<p>An exceptional internet site designer also understands the best way to increase website site visitors. Adding again hyperlinks and this kind of, this will greatly improve your Search engine optimization position, leaving your competitors guiding. In addition, they are also able to suggesting approaches that may benefit your internet site for straightforward viewing and quick uploading features.</p>
<p>Overall, having a web site designer is truly critical these days. The primary thing is for you personally to go along with other and be aggressive using the vast colony of web entrepreneurs. Hiring somebody to assist you in reaching your goals not merely inside your site but additionally in your enterprise, it is a sensible technique for conserving time. It really is a great chance operating hand in hand with skilled that understands the most effective of one&#8217;s site and can affiliate your suggestions to his works.<br />
Melbourne web site designers are remarkably effective when it comes to web developing; there are plenty of web developing experts on the spot. Make contact with them now; they may possibly be the important for your productive internet site.</p>
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		<title>Why a Melbourne business should choose a Qld company</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often people are amazed when I tell them that I am now based in Queensland but most of my clients are in Melbourne or Sydney. I am even now doing work for companies overseas! Which is cool but I wanted to write a post about why you might want to get me (A Queenslander) to design your website even if you are in Melbourne. Technology The first thing I wanted to look at quickly was technology. These days we stay in contact with our clients via phone, Skype, live chat on our website more so than face to face regardless [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://melbournewebsitedesigner.com.au/uncategorized/why-a-melbourne-business-should-choose-a-qld-company/attachment/brighton/" rel="attachment wp-att-210"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-210" title="brighton" src="http://melbournewebsitedesigner.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/brighton.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="206" /></a>Often people are amazed when I tell them that I am now based in Queensland but most of my clients are in Melbourne or Sydney.</p>
<p>I am even now doing work for companies overseas! Which is cool but I wanted to write a post about why you might want to get me (A Queenslander) to design your website even if you are in Melbourne.</p>
<p><strong>Technology</strong></p>
<p>The first thing I wanted to look at quickly was technology. These days we stay in contact with our clients via phone, Skype, live chat on our website more so than face to face regardless of where the client is located. Even if clients are local we are unlikely to spend a lot of time dealing face to face.</p>
<p>While face to face meets are good initially I find once you have met someone, from that point forward if your procedures are good away we can get better results by sticking to our procedures and producing great work efficiently without constant meetings. We can chat quickly on Skype or speak over the phone or via email which is all a matter of minutes. Meetings can be hours, and who is paying for that time?</p>
<p>You are paying for meetings even if they are &#8216;free&#8217;. Any inefficiencies in businesses are passed onto clients and running a lean and mean business that produces great work for great value means we have to work efficiently to utilising technology to communicate is an important part of this.</p>
<p>The the NBN on the way this will very much become and accepted way of doing business as people search for better value and less inefficiencies.</p>
<p><strong>Procedures</strong></p>
<p>Procedures are critical in the web world. When we have a new site, we have procedures and documents for the quot, then a new set of documents for design etc. We won&#8217;t start designing a website until our design spec is 100% full. This way the designer knows enough about the business and what the client wants before they start. There is no need to do &#8217;3 options&#8217;  generally our goal is to understand the need correctly and get it right the first time.</p>
<p>We are used to dealing with businesses outside our geographical area so our procedures have been refined over more than 5 years of doing so.</p>
<p><strong>Why us?</strong></p>
<p>So I suppose you are thinking, well that&#8217;s all ok but if we are ok working remotely why work with Dan instead of someone else. Here are some reasons.</p>
<ol>
<li>I am passionate about small businesses and we specifically service them. If you don&#8217;t believe me check out the 4 free ebooks, more than 15 videos, more than 100 posts on my main <a href="http://awebsitedesigner.com.au">small business web design blog</a>.</li>
<li>We operating under a service model and not a sales model. We don&#8217;t do &#8216;sales&#8217;. No boozy lunches, just great service.</li>
<li>We actively promote whichever open source solution we think is best for our clients – we don’t push one particular system. We act in the interests of our clients not our own. It&#8217;s not withing our client&#8217;s interests to be locked into our own &#8216;world beating&#8217; CMS.</li>
<li>We are honest, generous, transparent and BS free.</li>
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<p>But don&#8217;t take my word for it, <a href="http://awebsitedesigner.com.au/what-our-clients-say/">check out what our clients say</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>
<p>Well whether I have convinced you or not I don&#8217;t know but even if you don&#8217;t use us to design your website, feel free to check out all of the great free resources on this blog and I hope you get some value out of them.</p>
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		<title>Traffic grab review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi guys I posted this review for Traffic Grab on my main web design blog a few weeks ago. Click here or on the image to watch the video or feel free to visit youtube to see the traffic grab review video there. &#160; If you want to buy the product you can visit http://trafficgrab.com to watch some of the vids and make your way through to the page where you can purchase it or go direct to the buy page and pick it up there. *NOTE: I am not an affiliate for Traffic Grab I just like it, enjoy.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://media.awebsitedesigner.com.au/videos/traffic_grab_review.mp4" rel="shadowbox;width=640;height=360"><img class="alignleft" title="Traffic grab icon" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6205/6095355646_e0cc9a58fb_m.jpg" alt="" width="155" height="125" /></a>Hi guys I posted this review for Traffic Grab on my main <a href="http://awebsitedesigner.com.au/blog">web design blog</a> a few weeks ago.</p>
<p><a href="http://media.awebsitedesigner.com.au/videos/traffic_grab_review.mp4" rel="shadowbox;width=640;height=360">Click here</a> or on the image to watch the video or feel free to visit youtube to see the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGt4QjGsaXY" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-176];player=swf;width=640;height=385;" target="_blank">traffic grab review</a> video there.</p>
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<p>If you want to buy the product you can visit <a href="http://trafficgrab.com/" target="_blank">http://trafficgrab.com</a> to watch some of the vids and make your way through to the page where you can purchase it or go direct to the <a href="http://www.trafficgrab.com/traffic/" target="_blank">buy page</a> and pick it up there.</p>
<p>*NOTE: I am not an affiliate for Traffic Grab I just like it, enjoy.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this ebook and the supporting website review checklist to help small business owners take their websites to the next level. The ebook is full of examples and screenshots from great sites. I hope you find it useful. 8 features of great small business websites Website review checklist Download now Download now]]></description>
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		<title>How to build yourself a free world class website</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of my most popular ebooks. It might seem odd that a website designer writes a book encouraging small business owners to build their own sites instead of getting a website designer to do it. But my reasons are simple. I strongly support empowering small business owners to do as much as they can themselves especially when starting out I still believe most businesses will need support from a web designer to keep a great website going and we offer WordPress support from $25 / month. I would much rather small business owners avoid crappy website builders and [...]]]></description>
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<td style="padding-top: 6px; vertical-align: top;" rowspan="2" valign="top">This is one of my most popular ebooks. It might seem odd that a website designer writes a book encouraging small business owners to build their own sites instead of getting a website designer to do it. But my reasons are simple.</p>
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<li>I strongly support empowering small business owners to do as much as they can themselves especially when starting out</li>
<li>I still believe most businesses will need support from a web designer to keep a great website going and we offer <a href="http://awebsitedesigner.com.au/monthly-website-support/">WordPress support</a> from $25 / month.</li>
<li>I would much rather small business owners avoid crappy website builders and instead use a world class platform like WordPress.</li>
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<p>The ebook includes references to a number of <a href="http://melbournewebsitedesigner.com.au/blog/wordpress-training/">WordPress training videos</a> that I have recorded and put up on my main blog. Click on the download link or the image on the left to checkout the ebook and remember if you like it please share it!</td>
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		<title>Free ebook The Website Starter Guide launched</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download now The Website Starter Guide is written to help small businesses know the basics before delving into setting up their online presence. It covers everything you need to know before you start and gives some advice on choosing people to work with. I believe these 2 things are critical in determining your success online. Download the ebook on the left or you can check out the videos on my main blog on the Website Starter Guide page. If you like it, please feel free to share it in any way you want.]]></description>
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<a class="download fancybox button" href="http://melbournewebsitedesigner.com.au/ebook_download.htm">Download now</a></td>
<td style="padding-top: 6px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top"><a class="fancybox" href="http://melbournewebsitedesigner.com.au/ebook_download.htm">The Website Starter Guide</a> is written to help small businesses know the basics before delving into setting up their online presence. It covers everything you need to know before you start and gives some advice on choosing people to work with.</p>
<p>I believe these 2 things are critical in determining your success online.</p>
<p>Download the ebook on the left or you can check out the videos on my main blog on the <a href="http://awebsitedesigner.com.au/blog/starter-guide/">Website Starter Guide page</a>.</p>
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