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	<title>Compugasm</title>
	<link>http://blog.compugasm.com</link>
	<description>Running A Successful Web Project</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>I Want To Build Websites: Page 2</title>
		<link>http://blog.compugasm.com/2007/08/29/i-want-to-build-websites-page-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Knooren</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Call For Help]]></category>
<category>build a websites</category><category>Building websites is easy</category><category>career advice in web sites</category><category>college is a waste of time</category><category>find a web developer</category><category>good site advice</category><category>hire a freelancer</category><category>how to build websites</category><category>Internet Consulting</category><category>job market</category><category>trouble getting entry level jobs</category><category>Website consultant</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Page #1 &#124; Page #2
On the web, no matter how much time you spent preparing, or how accurate your estimate is, a client is gone with one mouse click. Why? There is no explanation. - Jeff Knooren
The Bad News
I suppose you&#8217;ll want to get a job at some point. Given that you have such a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining Roles: Project Manager</title>
		<link>http://blog.compugasm.com/2007/08/28/defining-roles-project-manager/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.compugasm.com/2007/08/28/defining-roles-project-manager/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Knooren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A good way to picture a project, is like a corporation. It is a "Thing" that doesn't really exist, but is comprised of many real world things that do exist. The documents, code, and the people who produce it; bring life to something. All of this must come together to under the direction of a project manager, who guides the project through its "lifetime". Projects are defined by...]]></description>
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		<title>How To Deal With Clients: On A Budget</title>
		<link>http://blog.compugasm.com/2007/08/21/how-to-deal-with-clients-on-a-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.compugasm.com/2007/08/21/how-to-deal-with-clients-on-a-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Knooren</dc:creator>
		
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<category>cheapskate clients</category><category>common courtesy</category><category>Dealing with a Paranoid Client</category><category>Finding clients</category><category>loosing clients</category><category>mean clients</category><category>need a website built</category><category>pleasing angry customers</category><category>poor communication skills</category><category>request for proposal</category><category>statement of work</category><category>understand technology</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even when you start a business on a small scale, you still need to do everything in a professional manner. I've noticed that no-one understands this better than religious organizations. They have amazing websites. Really good graphic designs, standards compliant, something I didn't expect at first, but makes complete sense. They are trying to embrace new technologies to get their message across. ]]></description>
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		<title>Not One Single Sale</title>
		<link>http://blog.compugasm.com/2007/08/17/not-one-single-sale/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.compugasm.com/2007/08/17/not-one-single-sale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Knooren</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Call For Help]]></category>
<category>artist website</category><category>Building websites</category><category>Business Cards</category><category>Call For Help</category><category>conventions</category><category>creative selling ideas</category><category>drawing funny pictures</category><category>eCommerce website</category><category>events</category><category>ice sculptors</category><category>Internet Consulting</category><category>Marketing techniques</category><category>people who draw caricatures</category><category>printed brochures</category><category>rent a booth</category><category>starting a blog</category><category>street faires</category><category>street fairs</category><category>wood carvers</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Building websites is much harder than people think it is. Since I've been Internet Consulting for almost 10yrs now, I get questions about where to start in this industry. Recently, an artist who does custom oil paintings has asked why they've invested hundreds of hours into their eCommerce website, and not made a single sale...]]></description>
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		<title>How To Deal With Clients: Paranoid</title>
		<link>http://blog.compugasm.com/2007/08/16/how-to-deal-with-clients-paranoid/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.compugasm.com/2007/08/16/how-to-deal-with-clients-paranoid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Knooren</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Foundation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Planning]]></category>
<category>cheapskate clients</category><category>common courtesy</category><category>Dealing with a Paranoid Client</category><category>Finding clients</category><category>loosing clients</category><category>mean clients</category><category>need a website built</category><category>pleasing angry customers</category><category>poor communication skills</category><category>request for proposal</category><category>statement of work</category><category>understand technology</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This person has a background in the legal profession somehow, because they love Non- Disclosure Agreements. You wind up trying to straighten our points of terms and definitions, rather than doing your job.]]></description>
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		<title>How To Deal With Clients: Uninterested Client</title>
		<link>http://blog.compugasm.com/2007/08/15/how-to-deal-with-clients-uninterested-client/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.compugasm.com/2007/08/15/how-to-deal-with-clients-uninterested-client/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Knooren</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Foundation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Planning]]></category>
<category>cheapskate clients</category><category>common courtesy</category><category>Finding clients</category><category>loosing clients</category><category>need a website built</category><category>pleasing angry customers</category><category>poor communication skills</category><category>request for proposal</category><category>statement of work</category><category>terrible clients</category><category>understand technology</category><category>Uninterested Client</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The uninterested client doesn’t want anything to do with the website, and could careless about the minutia of why something doesn’t work, or the best ways to do things. When you ask them questions about their business, the responses are minimal and feels somewhat like you have to drag information out of them...]]></description>
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		<title>How To Deal With Clients: Technophobe</title>
		<link>http://blog.compugasm.com/2007/08/14/how-to-deal-with-clients-techno-phobe/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.compugasm.com/2007/08/14/how-to-deal-with-clients-techno-phobe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Knooren</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Foundation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Planning]]></category>
<category>cheapskate clients</category><category>common courtesy</category><category>dealing with bad clients</category><category>Finding clients</category><category>loosing clients</category><category>need a website built</category><category>pleasing angry customers</category><category>poor communication skills</category><category>request for proposal</category><category>statement of work</category><category>understand technology</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You will loose many clients when bidding on projects as a freelance developer. For all the clients requesting "good communication" as a primary concern, they're often not that good at it themselves. It's not always your fault though, even when they try and make you think it is. My advice, is to not get discouraged and self doubt yourself. But also, don't invest the time in giving them a piece of your mind. They probably won't read it, just move on...]]></description>
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		<title>I Want To Build Websites: Page 1</title>
		<link>http://blog.compugasm.com/2007/08/13/i-want-to-build-websites/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.compugasm.com/2007/08/13/i-want-to-build-websites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Knooren</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Call For Help]]></category>
<category>accurate website estimate</category><category>Animation and Interactivity</category><category>Apache</category><category>Building websites is easy</category><category>career advice in web development</category><category>college is a waste of time</category><category>find a job</category><category>Flash 8</category><category>HTML</category><category>Internet Consulting</category><category>it beats scrubbing toilets</category><category>job market</category><category>OS X</category><category>Ruby on Rails</category><category>SQL</category><category>the next best thing</category><category>trouble getting entry level jobs</category><category>websites cost too much</category><category>where to start building websites</category><category>WordPress Blogs free themes</category><category>XML</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Building websites is much harder than people think it is. Since I've been Internet Consulting for almost 10yrs now, I get questions about where to start in this industry. Recently, a childhood friend of mine, decided to leave the construction industry, and get into the world of computing...]]></description>
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		<title>iFreelance</title>
		<link>http://blog.compugasm.com/2007/07/27/ifreelance/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.compugasm.com/2007/07/27/ifreelance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Knooren</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Estimates and Proposals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Planning]]></category>
<category>accurate estimates and quotes</category><category>beome a web designer</category><category>bid on a web project</category><category>finding clients as a freelancer</category><category>free price quotes</category><category>freelance</category><category>ifreelance.com</category><category>lead service</category><category>Need Freelance Professionals</category><category>overpriced web designers</category><category>unlimted bids</category><category>web design business</category><category>web design leads</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few years, new services such as <a href="http://www.ifreelance.com/" target="_blank" title="Need Freelance Professionals?">ifreelance.com</a> have sprung up, and revolutionized the way people who need sites, find people to make them. Be mindful of the buzz-word "revolution". As an experiment, I signed up for the service to give it a solid evaluation...]]></description>
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		<title>Graphic Sprites</title>
		<link>http://blog.compugasm.com/2007/07/26/graphic-sprites/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.compugasm.com/2007/07/26/graphic-sprites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Knooren</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Concept and Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>
<category>alistapart</category><category>cms</category><category>content management system</category><category>enterprise CMS</category><category>Graphic Sprites</category><category>icon sprites</category><category>icon symbols</category><category>icons</category><category>interface</category><category>interface designer</category><category>mix n match</category><category>resistance to change</category><category>software design</category><category>ui specialist</category><category>User Interface Designer</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous job, I used to be the Lead User Interface designer for an enterprise level CMS (Content Management System). One thing that made that position frustrating, was trying to overcome the limitations of software design that I had no control over. Example, one of my last tasks, was to update the "New" icon. Two months after undertaking that task...]]></description>
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