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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"><channel><title>Lime Dezign</title><link>http://www.limedezign.co.uk/</link><description>effective and affordable web design</description><generator>Graffiti CMS 1.3 Beta (build 1.3.0.0)</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:55:31 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title>Estrella Soccer</title><link>http://www.limedezign.co.uk/portfolio/estrella-soccer/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:54:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.limedezign.co.uk/portfolio/estrella-soccer/</guid><dc:creator>The Admin</dc:creator><category domain="http://www.limedezign.co.uk/portfolio/">Portfolio</category><description>&lt;div class="port-container"&gt;
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			Estrella Soccer required a new web site to more effectively reflect their brand. They wanted a site that was optimised for Google and had an attractive and compliant design.&lt;/p&gt;
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			Web Design Features&lt;/h2&gt;
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				Animated Content&lt;/li&gt;
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				SEO&lt;/li&gt;
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				Dynamic Content&lt;/li&gt;
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			Web Design Technology&lt;/h2&gt;
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				Flash&lt;/li&gt;
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				CSS&lt;/li&gt;
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				HTML&lt;/li&gt;
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</description><author>Lime Dezign &lt;mail@limedezign.co.uk&gt;</author></item><item><title>Online Shopping Cart System</title><link>http://www.limedezign.co.uk/news/online-shopping-cart-system/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:41:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.limedezign.co.uk/news/online-shopping-cart-system/</guid><dc:creator>The Admin</dc:creator><category domain="http://www.limedezign.co.uk/news/">News</category><description>&lt;p&gt;
	We are pleased to announce our new online shopping cart system.&lt;/p&gt;
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	This is a fully integrated online store, shopping cart and merchant gateway payment system.&lt;/p&gt;
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	The system also comes with an additional CMS module for additional web content&lt;/p&gt;
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	For more information - &lt;a href="http://www.limedezign.co.uk/services/e-commerce-websites/lime-dezign-online-store/"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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	You can view a live version of our Online Shopping system &lt;a href="http://www.limedezign.co.uk/ecomm" target=_new&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description><author>Lime Dezign &lt;mail@limedezign.co.uk&gt;</author></item><item><title>MS Office Live SEO</title><link>http://www.limedezign.co.uk/articles/ms-office-live-seo/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:14:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.limedezign.co.uk/articles/ms-office-live-seo/</guid><dc:creator>The Admin</dc:creator><category domain="http://www.limedezign.co.uk/articles/">Articles</category><description>&lt;p&gt;
	&lt;strong&gt;Here are some SEO tips that should help you optimise your MS Office Live site.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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	In this example we will be portraying a&lt;strong&gt; plumbing&lt;/strong&gt; business who would like to target two areas -&lt;strong&gt; congleton and sandbach&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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	1. Login to your website control panel in MS Offive Live.&lt;/p&gt;
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	In this demo we will use the homepage for our SEO example&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.limedezign.co.uk/files/media/image/postimages/olseo1.png" style="width: 879px; height: 291px;" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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	&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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	2. Chose the home page and click &amp;#39;properties&amp;#39; from the control panel.&lt;/p&gt;
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	In the &amp;#39;Page Title&amp;#39; box enter the targeted words followed by your business name e.g. plumbers,plumbing, sandbach, congleton - Smiths Plumbing services.&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.limedezign.co.uk/files/media/image/postimages/olseo2.png" style="width: 831px; height: 522px;" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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	&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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	3. Now click on the &amp;#39;Search Engine optimisation&amp;#39; tab.&lt;/p&gt;
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	Enter your keywords e.g. the words or phrase that you think a customer would search for e.g. sandbach plumber, congleton plumber.&lt;/p&gt;
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	Enter a description of the services your business offers.&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.limedezign.co.uk/files/media/image/postimages/olseo3.png" style="width: 794px; height: 523px;" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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	&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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	4. Repeat this procedure for each page but remember that your titles (page title) should be different for each page e.g. the contact us page should read something similar to : - plumbers, plumbing, sandbach, congleton, contact us - Smiths Plumbing Services.&lt;/p&gt;
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	This should hopefull help to add some SEO to your Office Live website.&lt;/p&gt;
</description><author>Lime Dezign &lt;mail@limedezign.co.uk&gt;</author></item><item><title>Choosing a Domain Name</title><link>http://www.limedezign.co.uk/articles/choosing-a-domain-name/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 21:21:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.limedezign.co.uk/articles/choosing-a-domain-name/</guid><dc:creator>The Admin</dc:creator><category domain="http://www.limedezign.co.uk/articles/">Articles</category><description>&lt;p&gt;Your domain name is the nucleus of your identity on the web.&lt;br /&gt;
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What should you take into consideration when choosing your web identity?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Good Practise&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Keep it short.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Make sure it is easy to spell.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Make sure it is easy to pronounce on the phone.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Use simple and plain English.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Use real words from the dictionary.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Use search engine keywords.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Keep it descriptive! Use words which describe exactly what you do.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Keep it simple and don't confuse your audience. What is this? www.tunapiano.com Is it 'Tuna Piano' or 'Tune a piano'?&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Cover your options and buy more than one domain if you need to.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Only index one domain per website on search engines, if you wish to avoid diluting your search engine ranking.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Choose the right domain provider. They are not all the same and many have hidden charges.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Use a popular and mainstream domain extension.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Choose the right domain extension for your market or country. For example .COM for International; .CO.UK for UK; .CA for Canada; .COM.AU for Australia.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;And finally, check your spelling before you buy and register online.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Domain Name &amp;amp; Business Name &amp;amp; Brand &amp;amp; Company Name !&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Ideally you will have one business name and it will be the same name for your domain, your business brand and your business name.&lt;br /&gt;
However you will find that all of the short and identifiable domain names are not available.&lt;br /&gt;
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So....assuming you are based in Manchester, your business is called 'Northern Plumbing Limited' and you run a home plumbing business. Then you should register two or more domains:&lt;br /&gt;
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www.manchesterplumbers.com&lt;br /&gt;
Or:&lt;br /&gt;
www.manchesterplumbers.co.uk&lt;br /&gt;
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And:&lt;br /&gt;
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www.northernplumbing.com&lt;br /&gt;
Or:&lt;br /&gt;
www.northernplumbing.co.uk&lt;br /&gt;
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With this in mind, you should ideally print www.northernplumbing.com on your business stationery (business cards, letterheads etc) and you index www.manchesterplumbers.com on search engines as it contains search engine keywords and more importantly, it says exactly what you do. &lt;br /&gt;
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When you have settled on several available name choices, see what your friends and clients have to say. A name that may make perfect sense to you may be too hard for other people to remember. Is your domain easy to say? Is it hard to spell? Do you have to explain why you chose the name?&lt;/p&gt;</description><author>Lime Dezign &lt;mail@limedezign.co.uk&gt;</author></item><item><title>Uk Fishing Forum</title><link>http://www.limedezign.co.uk/portfolio/uk-fishing-forum/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:16:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.limedezign.co.uk/portfolio/uk-fishing-forum/</guid><dc:creator>The Admin</dc:creator><category domain="http://www.limedezign.co.uk/portfolio/">Portfolio</category><description>&lt;div class="port-container"&gt;
&lt;div class="port-image"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.limedezign.co.uk/files/media/image/portfolio%20images/ff.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;UK Fishing Forum required a new web forum to accommodate sociual networking. They wanted a site that was optimised for Google to attract new members.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Web Design Features&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Social Website&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;SEO&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Dynamic Content&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Web Design Technology&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Forum&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;CSS&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;HTML&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><author>Lime Dezign &lt;mail@limedezign.co.uk&gt;</author></item><item><title>Testimonial - UK Fishing Forum</title><link>http://www.limedezign.co.uk/testimonials/testimonial-uk-fishing-forum/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:06:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.limedezign.co.uk/testimonials/testimonial-uk-fishing-forum/</guid><dc:creator>The Admin</dc:creator><category domain="http://www.limedezign.co.uk/testimonials/">Testimonials</category><description>&lt;p&gt;We needed a web forum built that would rival our fiercist competition which was a feat in itself!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We asked Lime Dezign to provide some advice on the best way to do this and the type of software to use.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dave gave us a number of options and demonstrated the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After an initial test period we decided upon a system that would best suit our needs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dave implemented the system and executed an in depth search engine optimisation which has proved very successful indeed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We now have a fully functional web forum that has attracted a great deal of members in a very short time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We would fully recommend Lime Dezign - thanks&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;UK Fishing Forum&lt;/p&gt;</description><author>Lime Dezign &lt;mail@limedezign.co.uk&gt;</author></item><item><title>Pay Monthly Websites</title><link>http://www.limedezign.co.uk/news/pay-monthly-websites/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:52:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.limedezign.co.uk/news/pay-monthly-websites/</guid><dc:creator>The Admin</dc:creator><category domain="http://www.limedezign.co.uk/news/">News</category><description>&lt;p&gt;
	In keeping with our philosophy of affordable and effective websites and web design we can offer you a cost effective solution to putting your business online.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
	This flexible approach provides you with a fully functional website incorporating all of our standard offerings including web design, branding, search engine optimisation, domain name and web hosting.&lt;/p&gt;
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	We do not require that you sign up to any long term contracts or pay any money up front.&lt;/p&gt;
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	This is simply a pay per month website offer. The only stipulation is that you sign up to a minimum 3 month contract.&lt;/p&gt;
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	If you do not wish to continue after the 3 month period we will still keep your website in a fully functional state should you wish to start it up again.&lt;/p&gt;
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	Our pay monthly websites start at &amp;pound;20 per month for a basic site.&lt;/p&gt;
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	&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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	Please feel free to contact us - &lt;a href="mailto:mail@limedezign.co.uk"&gt;mail@limedezign.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description><author>Lime Dezign &lt;mail@limedezign.co.uk&gt;</author></item><item><title>Pay Monthly Websites</title><link>http://www.limedezign.co.uk/services/pay-monthly-websites/pay-monthly-websites/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:44:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.limedezign.co.uk/services/pay-monthly-websites/pay-monthly-websites/</guid><dc:creator>The Admin</dc:creator><category domain="http://www.limedezign.co.uk/services/pay-monthly-websites/">Pay Monthly Websites</category><description>&lt;p&gt;
	In keeping with our philosophy of affordable and effective websites and web design we can offer you a cost effective solution to putting your business online.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
	This flexible approach provides you with a fully functional website incorporating all of our standard offerings including web design, branding, search engine optimisation, domain name and web hosting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
	We do not require that you sign up to any long term contracts or pay any money up front.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
	This is simply a pay per month website offer. The only stipulation is that you sign up to a minimum 3 month contract.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
	If you do not wish to continue after the 3 month period we will still keep your website in a fully functional state should you wish to start it up again.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
	Our pay monthly websites start at &amp;pound;20 per month for a basic site.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
	&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
	Please feel free to contact us - &lt;a href="mailto:mail@limedezign.co.uk?subject=Pay Monthly Website"&gt;mail@limedezign.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description><author>Lime Dezign &lt;mail@limedezign.co.uk&gt;</author></item><item><title>Efficiency Point</title><link>http://www.limedezign.co.uk/portfolio/efficiency-point/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:33:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.limedezign.co.uk/portfolio/efficiency-point/</guid><dc:creator>The Admin</dc:creator><category domain="http://www.limedezign.co.uk/portfolio/">Portfolio</category><description>&lt;div class="port-container"&gt;
&lt;div class="port-image"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.limedezign.co.uk/files/media/image/portfolio%20images/ep.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Efficiency Point required a new design to incorporate a modern web 2.0 look and feel. They wanted a consistent brand with the ability to manage their own content.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Web Design Features&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Web 2.0 Interface&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Content Management&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Dynamic Content&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Web Design Technology&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;CMS&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;CSS&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;HTML&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><author>Lime Dezign &lt;mail@limedezign.co.uk&gt;</author></item><item><title>Lloyd Chapman</title><link>http://www.limedezign.co.uk/portfolio/lloyd-chapman/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:04:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.limedezign.co.uk/portfolio/lloyd-chapman/</guid><dc:creator>The Admin</dc:creator><category domain="http://www.limedezign.co.uk/portfolio/">Portfolio</category><description>&lt;div class="port-container"&gt;
&lt;div class="port-image"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.limedezign.co.uk/files/media/image/portfolio%20images/lc.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Lloyd Chapman required a web presence to showcase and sell his art. He wanted a consistent brand with the ability to manage his own content.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Web Design Features&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;E-Commerce&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Content Management&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Dynamic Content&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Web Design Technology&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;CMS&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;CSS&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;PayPal&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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