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	<title>Building Better Web Sites</title>
	<link>http://www.johnmckown.com</link>
	<description>John McKown: President of Delaware.Net, Inc.</description>
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		<title>Please, Please, Please stop using Internet Explorer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the web design world, web design professionals HATE HATE HATE Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer web browser.  Its the one topic that even feuding web designers agree on. Typically, our customers look at us funny when we suggest that they stop using Internet Explorer.   It feels to me as though the customers think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/please-please-please-stop-using-internet-explorer/</link>
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		<title>Delaware.Net Office Remodel, and Our Cool New Desks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I became inspired to improve our office environment.  My goals included:

Open up the space &#8211; we knocked down three walls in the office, combining the tech and design areas.
Bring in more natural light &#8211; knocking down the walls allowed more light in from the perimeter offices.
Get rid of barriers between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/delaware-net-office-remodel-and-our-cool-new-desks/</link>
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		<title>iPhone coming to Verizon in June?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This website says that Verizon is currently testing a 4G version of the iPhone with 4G, multitasking, videochat, and a removable battery.  
http://hubpages.com/hub/The-NEW-iPhone-4G-Coming-2010
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		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/iphone-coming-to-verizon-in-june/</link>
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		<title>How to accept credit card payments in your website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I receive questions just about every day from prospects and existing clients about taking online payments through their websites.   In this article, I will give you all the information that you need to get started accepting online payments.
Here are answers to the most common questions about accepting payments in real-time through your website:

Question:  &#8220;Can I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/how-to-accept-payments-in-a-website/</link>
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		<title>Do you lose pre-paid domain money when you change hosts?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got this email inquiry from a potential customer yesterday:
Comments: I recently started a website with (deleted name of host) which is a do-it-yourself web hosting site.  After a week or so, I think I&#8217;m about ready to throw in the towel!  The problem is that I&#8217;ve paid for my domain for the next 4 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/do-you-lose-pre-paid-domain-money-when-you-change-hosts/</link>
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		<title>Search Engine Friendly URLs Now in Our Applications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We updated our Store-Logic and Team-Logic CMS applications to take advantage of a new way to handle page URLs, which will make our client&#8217;s websites come up higher in Google and other search engines.   I posted an in-depth article about how this works on our company blog today which you can view here.    [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/search-engine-friendly-urls-now-in-our-applications/</link>
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		<title>City of Harrington, Del., Chooses Delaware.Net</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The City of Harrington, Delaware recently awarded Delaware.Net the contract to rebuild their website.    Harrington researched web design companies from around the country.     The proposal from another competing municipal website design vendor for the city&#8217;s website was over $30,000 and a included a 3-year contract commitment for hosting the site.   By contrast, Delaware.Net prepared [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/city-of-harrington-delaware-chooses-delaware-net/</link>
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		<title>Alternative to CivicPlus for City Websites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ICON Enterprises (doing business as &#8216;CivicPlus&#8217;) is a company in Kansas that specializes in building municipal websites.   My company (Delaware.Net) competes with companies like this from around the country when we bid on municipal website design projects.    We lost a couple of prospective new projects to CivicPlus in 2007 when we were in the middle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/alternative-to-civicplus-for-city-websites/</link>
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		<title>15 ways to tell if you are ready for ecommerce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone can setup an ecommerce store online.   There are many ways to post products for sale in minutes, even using sites like ebay.  I speak with people that want to sell products online every day.  While many people want to make lots of money and come up high in Google, most of them aren&#8217;t ready [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/15-ways-to-tell-if-ecommerce-isnt-for-your-business/</link>
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		<title>Network Solutions / Monster Commerce Hacked &#8211; 600,000 cardholders exposed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monster Commerce Hacked
In a startling news release on CNET News, it was just reported that Network Solutions and Monster Commerce, who host about 10,000 ecommerce stores, had their credit card data stolen from almost 5,000 ecommerce websites.   This is obviously a nightmare for their customers, and the cardholders that have shopped on Monster Commerce stores.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/network-solutions-monster-commerce-hacked-600000-cardholders-exposed/</link>
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		<title>Zoom your browser window easily</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can zoom the content of your web browser easily.  On a PC, hold the CTRL key and use the plus sign (+) key to zoom in, and use the minus sign (-) key to zoom out. You can reset the zoom using CTRL ZERO (0).  On the Mac, use the same procedure, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/zoom-your-browser-window/</link>
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		<title>The Long Tail &#8211; A Secret Behind SEO Dominance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is one of the plays that comes right out of my Search Engine Optimization (SEO) playbook. This tip should make you more money with your website, but it also unfortunately takes more work for you to implement. This technique is one of the tips that high performance website owners use to dominate Google.


What is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/the-long-tail-a-secret-behind-seo-dominance/</link>
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