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		<title>A Pixel Identity Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keana Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pixel has always been the smallest unit in screen-based design. Because it’s been indivisible, it is the concrete unit of measurement among screen-based designers. The phrase “a pixel is a pixel is a pixel” has been adopted to help print designers not used to fixed-screen density understand the concept. Because of this consistency, web [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design Freebie: Photoshop Tessellation Patterns</title>
		<link>http://blog.beacontechnologies.com/free-photoshop-tessellation-patterns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Calogero</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photoshop patterns]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.beacontechnologies.com/?p=6376</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While working on a site design recently I played with creating some tessellation patterns (I&#8217;m pretty sure I had been looking at M.C. Escher that morning).  I never did use these graphics for the site design I was working on, but I thought I would colorize them and create some seamless Photoshop pattern files to provide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developing jQuery Plug-ins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Brinegar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jquery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jquery development]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.beacontechnologies.com/?p=6202</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I dug around the web today for tutorials on making personalized jQuery plug-ins.  A plug-in is much more easily deployed onto a site than customized code, which may require editing or customization between sites.  Using a plugin, we have a much simpler means of calling a script using common syntax:  $(&#8216;something&#8217;).doThis(); In the past, I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For the Layperson: A Simple Guide to Image Prep for the Web</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Calogero</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crop tool]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.beacontechnologies.com/?p=6141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the development of user-friendly Content Management Systems, we now see many people using these tools to edit their own websites. Often times, this includes adding images to your page, and almost always you will want to work within a certain image size constraint so that the images will fit better into the layout of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texwipe Site Launch</title>
		<link>http://blog.beacontechnologies.com/texwipe-site-launch/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.beacontechnologies.com/texwipe-site-launch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beacon News</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beacon News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cascade Server]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eCommerce / ASPDNSF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cascade server]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hannon hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Managing Web Content]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.beacontechnologies.com/?p=6102</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We launched another great site for ITW Texwipe at http://www.texwipe.com! This site seamlessly blends the functionality of Hannon Hill’s CMS (the Products, Industries and Technical Data menus) with a full-featured ecommerce store (the Buy Texwipe menu), with shared navigation and design. This is the first project that integrated both products at the same time and, thanks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>jQuery&#8217;s Animate Method</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Brinegar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.beacontechnologies.com/?p=6127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The jQuery library has a collection of methods built for animating and manipulating the DOM.  These effects implement styling changes to produce transitions like fading or element movement.  The full list of methods are available on the jQuery website. jQuery also contains a nifty method, animate.  Animate allows you to make a timed transition from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Custom Fonts in Internet Explorer 9</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Brinegar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Managing Web Content]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[browsers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[debug]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[errors]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.beacontechnologies.com/?p=6119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During recent projects, integrating fonts for the right look and feel has shown to be troublesome for Internet Explorer. After implementing a font file into a CSS file, Internet Explorer 9 would provide the following error and not show the embedded font: CSS3114 @font-face failed OpenType embedding permission check. Permission must be Installable. This error [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding the Golden Mean</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Calogero</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative Design]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.beacontechnologies.com/?p=6027</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Nothing to Excess&#8221; -carved into the front of the temple at Delphi. Without getting too geeky, the golden mean or golden ratio is simply a mathematical formula that dictates proportions that are found throughout the natural world and believed to be the foundation of what we find to be aesthetically pleasing. Many artists, sculptors and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greensboro Housing Authority Site Launch</title>
		<link>http://blog.beacontechnologies.com/greensboro-housing-authority-site-launch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beacon News</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beacon News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cascade Server]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.beacontechnologies.com/?p=5958</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re proud to announce the release of the Greensboro Housing Authority redesign!  As always, Beacon was right on-time with our deliverables, which is always our goal.  The client chose a soft launch date of December 1, 2011 because they wanted to show the new site to their Board of Directors at their annual meeting that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 3D Effect</title>
		<link>http://blog.beacontechnologies.com/the-3d-effect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zedric Myers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Websites designs are always evolving and that&#8217;s a very good thing.It&#8217;s great for inspiration, engaging customers and can give a fresh new outlook on how the audience views your site. The 3D effect is a great example in evolving designs. It helps give the illusion of depth to your site and when designed in a [...]]]></description>
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