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	<title>A Blog by Heather Goff</title>
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	<description>Excerpts From My Journey in Website Development and Social Media</description>
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		<title>Spotlite Radio Scam?</title>
		<link>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2014/03/spotlite-radio-scam/</link>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2014 21:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Goff]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Please note, this blog post was written in 2014 about the company &#8220;Spotlite Radio&#8221;. Several weeks ago my phone rang and it was a representative of Spotlite Radio. Apparently they had found my website and wanted to interview me about my business on their radio station. It would be for 8 minutes, a producer would [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking at popular web building platforms with an eye to SEO</title>
		<link>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2014/01/looking-at-popular-web-building-platforms-with-an-eye-to-seo/</link>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 01:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Goff]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Alison Shaw and Sue Dawson asked Kathleen Forsythe and me to give a presentation at one of the weekend retreats offered by their mentorship program. Kathleen designed their site, alisonshaw.com and I programmed it with a custom content management system, so they immediately thought of us when looking for speakers who could address the subject [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Useful Tips</title>
		<link>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2014/01/useful-non-website-tips/</link>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2014 20:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Goff]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[I found a list of over 30 useful tips about &#8220;what are common activities people do wrong every day but don&#8217;t know it&#8221; on quora.com at this link: http://www.quora.com/Tips-and-Hacks-for-Everyday-Life/What-are-common-activities-people-do-wrong-every-day-but-dont-know-it They don&#8217;t have anything to do with web design, or social media, or programming, but I&#8217;m going to share some of them anyway in this blog [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>If you are moving your website, be sure not to forget!</title>
		<link>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2014/01/if-you-are-moving-your-website-be-sure-not-to-forget/</link>
				<comments>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2014/01/if-you-are-moving-your-website-be-sure-not-to-forget/#comments</comments>
				<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2014 21:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Goff]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Two things, which are very important, and are often overlooked when companies are moving or redesigning their websites are email accounts and search engine links. I have new clients every year who have existing websites and either want them redesigned or to have a content management system put in, and I am very conscientious about [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Artist WordPress Template</title>
		<link>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2012/02/artist-wordpress-template/</link>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 01:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Goff]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[I decided at the beginning of February to create a drawing a day. I put up a quick blog to post them. Then, I started playing with the blog template to see if I could get different layouts for the images. I have been wanting to create an online portfolio in WordPress that would work [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>blog broken? look first to your plugins</title>
		<link>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2012/02/blog-broken-look-first-to-your-plugins/</link>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Goff]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[One of the best things about working in WordPress is all of the fantastic free plugins that are available. When I first started developing WordPress websites, I felt like a kid in a candy store, who&#8217;d been told that she could have as much as she wanted, and it was all free! I installed every [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you having trouble getting single line spacing in your blog?</title>
		<link>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2012/02/are-you-having-trouble-getting-single-line-spacing-in-your-blog/</link>
				<comments>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2012/02/are-you-having-trouble-getting-single-line-spacing-in-your-blog/#respond</comments>
				<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Goff]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[A number of my clients use WordPress, and most of the others have custom content management systems with which they can manage their website content. One of the help questions that comes my way frequently has to do with their content showing up double spaced. This doesn&#8217;t occur when typing a normal paragraph and hitting [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a short, easy to remember URL for your facebook business page</title>
		<link>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2011/09/creating-a-short-easy-to-remember-url-for-your-facebook-business-page/</link>
				<comments>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2011/09/creating-a-short-easy-to-remember-url-for-your-facebook-business-page/#comments</comments>
				<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Goff]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[Having a facebook business page for your business has become an integral part of having a great web presence. I have just discovered how to create a short and direct link to my facebook business page. Instead of sending people to facebook.com/pages/name-of-my-page/some-long-number, I can send them to facebook.com/username, and I chose what username to use. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Some simple guidelines to make your blog look designed, without hiring a designer.</title>
		<link>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2011/06/some-simple-guidelines-to-make-your-blog-look-designed-without-hiring-a-designer/</link>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Goff]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[WHY should you care? Blogs are all about content. We use a blog platform to deliver good content to our audience, and thus promote our businesses or our brand. How your content is presented, however, can either improve your message, or hinder your message. Your audience, before they even read your content, is looking at [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Video tutorial: how to easily add custom content to a text widget</title>
		<link>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2011/04/video-tutorial-how-to-easily-add-custom-content-to-a-text-widget/</link>
				<comments>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2011/04/video-tutorial-how-to-easily-add-custom-content-to-a-text-widget/#respond</comments>
				<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Goff]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[The WordPress text widget is the most powerful widget in your widget library because you can add anything at all to it&#8230;. as long as you have the code. Dragging the text widget to your side bar and clicking to edit it, one is presented with a big white blank box, and that can be [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>How to place a feedburner email subscription form on your blog</title>
		<link>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2011/04/how-to-place-a-feedburner-email-subscription-form-on-your-blog/</link>
				<comments>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2011/04/how-to-place-a-feedburner-email-subscription-form-on-your-blog/#comments</comments>
				<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Goff]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://goffgrafix.com/blog/?p=563</guid>
				<description><![CDATA[A great way to keep up to date with a blog that you love to follow is to subscribe to an email subscription of their posts. That way, when a new post is made, it lands right in your email inbox. If you want to offer this to people who visit your blog, it is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>how my signature file keeps me polite</title>
		<link>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2011/02/how-my-signature-file-keeps-me-polite/</link>
				<comments>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2011/02/how-my-signature-file-keeps-me-polite/#respond</comments>
				<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Goff]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Being a web designer/programmer, most of my business communications are done through email. I receive literally hundreds of emails a day, and sometimes I am emailing back and forth to a client repeatedly while also trying to get done the programming on my plate. Now this in itself is probably not a great practice &#8211; [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>one reason why paypal might be rejecting your credit card</title>
		<link>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2011/02/one-reason-why-paypal-might-be-rejecting-your-credit-card/</link>
				<comments>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2011/02/one-reason-why-paypal-might-be-rejecting-your-credit-card/#comments</comments>
				<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Goff]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[I use PayPal all the time to make online purchases. I find it very very convenient. A number of my clients use it to collect payments on their websites because it is free to join, the fees are comparable to other merchant services and your customers no longer need a PayPal account to make a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>reasons why emails bounce back</title>
		<link>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2011/02/reasons-why-emails-bounce-back/</link>
				<comments>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2011/02/reasons-why-emails-bounce-back/#respond</comments>
				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Goff]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago I had a client call me in a panic. She said that her emails were bouncing back and could I fix it? It ended up that she had just sent a big mailing with attachments out and a handful of the emails bounced back. Her bounced emails inspired this blog post. There [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>How to add video to your blog post or website page</title>
		<link>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2011/02/how-to-add-video-to-your-blog-post-or-website/</link>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Goff]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[I build websites with custom content management systems, and I also set up custom WordPress blog sites for clients. Often my clients have videos produced and are at a loss on how to add them to their websites. This tutorial is directed at videos that are hosted elsewhere and give you an embed code for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO Keyword Research &#8211; where to start</title>
		<link>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2010/08/seo-keyword-research-where-to-start/</link>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Goff]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[This is a quick tutorial on how to start gathering keywords to use in optimizing your website for the search engines. The first step is to brainstorm and jot down a list of what you think the phrases are that people are using who might want what your website offers. What are the phrases that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Distraction is not all bad</title>
		<link>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2010/05/distraction-is-not-all-ba/</link>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 15:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Goff]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, as a free lance web designer, I have so much on my punch list that I put on blinders, put my nose to the grindstone and don&#8217;t feel I can look up from my computer. People are counting on me to get their work done, and it would be irresponsible to let myself be [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>please don&#8217;t hold up websites that I programmed 5 years ago as examples of work that I do today</title>
		<link>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2010/04/please-dont-hold-up-websites-that-i-programmed-5-years-ago-as-examples-of-work-that-i-do-today/</link>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Goff]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Website programming is so different today compared to what it was even five years ago, that it is like comparing houses built of mud to houses built of brick, or a tricycle to a racing bike. I am not talking about visual differences, though there are some &#8211; websites are designed for a higher screen [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>If your server sets the allow_url_fopen and allow_url_include PHP directives OFF</title>
		<link>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2010/04/if-your-server-sets-the-allow_url_fopen-and-allow_url_include-php-directives-off/</link>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Goff]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Here is some great geeky information given by network solutions customer service to one of my clients, who passed it on to me. Since my servers have similar security standards, I frequently refer to the code examples and solutions illustrated below. For security reasons (to prevent “PHP include” hacker attacks),  some servers set the allow_url_fopen [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Uploading a pdf file to your blog</title>
		<link>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2010/04/uploading-a-pdf-file-to-your-blog/</link>
				<comments>http://goffgrafix.com/blog/2010/04/uploading-a-pdf-file-to-your-blog/#comments</comments>
				<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Goff]]></dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Uploading a PDF file to your blog and linking to it is a very useful ability to have. PDF files can be opened by anyone who has the free acrobat reader software, and are a great way of formatting registration forms, contracts, event brochures etc..   You may want to add them in your Links or [&#8230;]]]></description>
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