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		<title>Open Thread: Essential Freelancing Survival Tips</title>
		<link>http://serenedestiny.com/blog/freelancing/essential-freelancing-survival-tips/</link>
		<comments>http://serenedestiny.com/blog/freelancing/essential-freelancing-survival-tips/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Foster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freelancing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Thread]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Freelancing can be rough sometimes. Clients, time management, marketing and don&#8217;t get me started on accounting. Learning from other freelancers is essential so I want to ask you viewing this post: What freelancing tips helped you survive through rough spots? A tip I want to give to you is always make your client sign a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Can Walk the Walk, You Have to Talk the Talk</title>
		<link>http://serenedestiny.com/blog/opinion-pieces/if-you-can-walk-the-walk-you-have-to-talk-the-talk/</link>
		<comments>http://serenedestiny.com/blog/opinion-pieces/if-you-can-walk-the-walk-you-have-to-talk-the-talk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Foster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web designers and other professionals on the web often call themselves &#8220;experts&#8221; in their field. Some can prove it with immense knowledge in their field, but others lack ways of proving their &#8220;expertise&#8221;. So I say, &#8220;If you can walk the walk, you have to talk the talk.&#8221; Get out and prove that you&#8217;re an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Thread: What Do You Do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Foster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Open Thread]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What do you do? Today I want to give back to my readers and let them share to others what their profession is. So in the comment section below, share what you do with a link to your website. What do I do? My name is Nicole Foster and I am a website designer based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inspiration Isn&#8217;t Found in a CSS Gallery</title>
		<link>http://serenedestiny.com/blog/web-design/inspiration-isnt-found-in-a-css-gallery/</link>
		<comments>http://serenedestiny.com/blog/web-design/inspiration-isnt-found-in-a-css-gallery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Foster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion Pieces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSS Galleries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opinion piece]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://serenedestiny.com/blog/?p=245</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We have all heard of or been to a CSS gallery website. Their purpose is to showcase excellently designed websites and provide inspiration. While I respect their purpose to showcase otherwise unknown sites, their secondary purpose is flawed. In actuality, CSS galleries do not provide us with real inspiration, they provide us with false inspiration. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 TED Talks You Must Watch to be a Better Designer</title>
		<link>http://serenedestiny.com/blog/other/ted-talks-you-must-watch-to-be-a-better-designer/</link>
		<comments>http://serenedestiny.com/blog/other/ted-talks-you-must-watch-to-be-a-better-designer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Foster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t know what TED is, then you&#8217;re missing out big-time. TED is a small non-profit organization that holds yearly conferences that discuss Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED). The conferences include several different people with a passion for educating people and spreading new ideas. Right now, we&#8217;re going to focus on their Design talks. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be an Awesome Freelancer with Tips from these Awesome Freelancers</title>
		<link>http://serenedestiny.com/blog/freelancing/be-an-awesome-freelancer/</link>
		<comments>http://serenedestiny.com/blog/freelancing/be-an-awesome-freelancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Foster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freelancing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://serenedestiny.com/blog/?p=199</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Being a freelancer is pretty awesome. The creative freedom of freelancing helps you develop as a designer or any other field you&#8217;re in. It allows you to work anywhere, your home or outside, and it allows you to be flexible with your time, which is a plus for clients. So why not jump into freelancing? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>40 Tips for Brand-New Freelance Designers</title>
		<link>http://graphicdesignblender.com/40-tips-for-brand-new-freelance-designers-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Foster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freelancing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[designer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freelance]]></category>
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		<title>How a Video Game&#8217;s Failure Made Me a Better Web Designer</title>
		<link>http://serenedestiny.com/blog/web-design/how-a-video-games-failure-made-me-a-better-web-designer/</link>
		<comments>http://serenedestiny.com/blog/web-design/how-a-video-games-failure-made-me-a-better-web-designer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Foster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure you have heard of the video game Blacksite: Area 51. The game was released in 2007 with much anticipation. Everything a sci-fi, gamer geek would want. Except it left out one huge thing: anything good about it. The game ended up being an utter failure and I was there to witness it. From [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Usability Tips to Jump Into UX</title>
		<link>http://serenedestiny.com/blog/web-design/quick-usability-tips-to-jump-into-ux/</link>
		<comments>http://serenedestiny.com/blog/web-design/quick-usability-tips-to-jump-into-ux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 05:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Foster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[usability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://serenedestiny.com/blog/?p=161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Making your website usable is essential to obtaining more visitors. Visitors who do not understand and cannot work with a website will not stay on it. This creates a domino effect and soon, others will leave too. UX may be a tricky thing to jump into. With A/B testing, wireframes, classification schemes and other things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review of DesignCrowd.com</title>
		<link>http://serenedestiny.com/blog/other/review-of-designcrowd/</link>
		<comments>http://serenedestiny.com/blog/other/review-of-designcrowd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 14:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Foster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion Pieces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design crowd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design jobs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[logo design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://serenedestiny.com/blog/?p=152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last few months, I have participated in a design website called Design Crowd. It provides different types of jobs for designers such as logo design, web design and print design. It offers designers a new source of income and wonderful clients. It&#8217;s a very nice place for designers to find work. Pros of [...]]]></description>
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