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	<title>benfrain.com - blog of writer and web designer Ben Frain. OSX, iPhone, Apple Mac, Windows 7, website design writing</title>
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		<title>WordPress &#8211; how to strip inline image width and height attributes (for responsive designs)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to make a new responsive WordPress theme and need to remove the automatically generated width and height attributes? For example, WordPress is generating image code like this: When what you need is: Exactly the same, sans the width and height attributes. Well, here&#8217;s how (filter info from here) 1. Open your theme&#8217;s functions.php (e.g. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Espresso2 review now in MacUser magazine (on the shelves now)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Coda2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Espresso2]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently reviewed MacRabbit&#8217;s Espresso2 code editing application for MacUser magazine here in the UK and it&#8217;s now hit the shelves (9th December issue). I&#8217;ve been an avid Coda user for years but until Coda2 drops I&#8217;m using Espresso2 as my primary code editing environment. It&#8217;s not perfect (no inline HTML validation, no built in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HDR Light Studio v3 &amp; SprayTrace press releases</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2012/01/hdr-light-studio-v3-and-spraytrace-press-releases.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[HDR Light Studio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[press releases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SprayTrace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love writing press releases! It&#8217;s challenging and exciting to articulate something new to the world and attempting to convey everything that&#8217;s great about it. I had the pleasure of writing a couple of press releases for HDR Light Studio v3 and SprayTrace recently. Here&#8217;s the full releases for both: #BEGINS Lightmap launches HDR Light [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revised addecoltd.co.uk: responsive, built with SASS and loaded with CSS3</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/12/addecoltd-co-uk-responsive-built-with-sass-and-loaded-with-css3.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Addeco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSS3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Espresso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Responsive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SASS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished a quick revamp of the www.addecoltd.co.uk website, an aggregate and fence company based in Burslem, Stoke On Trent. I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of responsive design work of late but much is under NDA&#8217;s of sorts so I&#8217;ve been able to post much info. However, this one is a responsive design so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discussing Android use in IFE piece for APEX</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/11/discussing-android-use-in-ife-piece-for-apex.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Android]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just received hard copy of a piece I&#8217;ve written for APEX magazine about the rise of Android OS for In Flight Entertainment systems. It involved talking to lots of folk in the industry and discussing the appeal (or not) of Android. It was my first time writing for APEX but it&#8217;s a great publication and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truly responsive type units (vw, vh and vm) on the way</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Responsive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[responsive fonts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vh font unit]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1205</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you work with responsive designs, you&#8217;ll perhaps be interested to learn that amongst the current working draft of the CSS3 Fonts module is reference to &#8216;viewport relative&#8217; fonts: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/#viewport-relative-lengths. The ‘vw’ unit (for viewport width), ‘vh’ unit (for viewport height) and ‘vm’ unit (for viewport minimum – equal to the smaller of either vm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easily display the viewport size of your page (for responsive designs)</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/09/easily-display-the-viewport-size-of-your-page-for-responsive-designs.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jquery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Responsive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[viewport]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1199</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m doing a lot of work with responsive web design at the moment and I wanted a quick and simple cross-browser way of showing what size the current viewport window (you know that bit that actually shows the webpage, sans the interface) was. There&#8217;s lots of cool extensions (Resize for Safari being a favourite) out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to easily add jQuery scripts to a WordPress Child Theme</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/08/how-to-easily-add-jquery-scripts-to-a-wordpress-child-theme.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech-tip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enqueue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jquery]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of a piece I&#8217;m writing for MacUser magazine I&#8217;m trying to explain how to easily add jQuery and an associated custom script to a Child Theme in WordPress (v3 onwards). If you&#8217;re a designer primarily, the following code snippet may well help you. It assumes you have already made a child theme. With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mail not opening after Lion install? Here&#8217;s the solution</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/07/mail-not-opening-after-lion-install-heres-the-solution.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/07/mail-not-opening-after-lion-install-heres-the-solution.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you have installed Lion and imported your mail back from a TimeMachine backup you did in Snow Leopard. You click Mail and it updates/imports the messages and then&#8230; nothing. I got the menu bar at the top of the screen but no actual application window. Bum. Here&#8217;s how I fixed the problem. Your mileage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TestTrack.Tv website is now live for high octane videos</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/07/testtrack-tv-website-is-now-live-for-high-octane-videos.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jquery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TestTrack.tv]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on the testtrack.tv website with the test track.tv team since February on and off. It&#8217;s a video based website which showcases all the best high octane videos from around the net. Besides having stacks of incredible videos there is also a motorsport event calendar that can be searched with integrated Google Maps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plantronics Voyager Pro UC v2 review for MacUser</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/07/plantronics-voyager-pro-uc-v2-review-for-macuser.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/07/plantronics-voyager-pro-uc-v2-review-for-macuser.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[MacUser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plantronics Voyager Pro UC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just reviewed the Plantronics Voyager Pro UC v2 headset for MacUser magazine. It&#8217;s a bluetooth headset that let&#8217;s you stay connected to both your phone and your computer (e.g. Skype) at the same time. It also has a built in sensor so as soon as you put it in your ear it answers the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress ultimate installation guide for MacUser magazine</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/07/wordpress-ultimate-installation-guide-for-macuser-magazine.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/07/wordpress-ultimate-installation-guide-for-macuser-magazine.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MacUser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve contributed a WordPress installation step-by-step for MacUser a couple of weeks back which should appear on newsstands very shortly. Hopefully, whether you want to install via SSH, FTP, Installatron/Fanastico it&#8217;ll get WordPress up and running for you. Database setup often trips first time installers up so this is given extra attention. If the WordPress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final Cut Pro X piece for MacUser magazine</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/07/final-cut-pro-x-piece-for-macuser-magazine.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/07/final-cut-pro-x-piece-for-macuser-magazine.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FCPX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Cut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MacUser]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently contributed a tutorial on FCPX for MacUser magazine. It&#8217;s a step-by-step detailing how to get to grips with Apple&#8217;s new flagship editor. If you&#8217;re looking for a primer on some of the basics of the new NLE, you might like to check it out. The big new features are all covered including: Auditions, Magnetic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two in-flight entertainment features in Airline Entertainment supplement</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/07/in-flight-entertainment-feature-in-airline-entertainment-supplement.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/07/in-flight-entertainment-feature-in-airline-entertainment-supplement.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Airline Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GUI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IFE]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of writing for Airline Entertainment magazine this month. It&#8217;s a UKIP publication, from the same team that produces Airline Interiors International. I&#8217;ve written two features for the publication, the first covering in-flight content loading and delivery (how all the stuff you sit and watch on a flight actually gets there) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OS X Subversion setup quick start (for use with Coda etc)</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/06/osx-subversion-quick-start-with-coda.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/06/osx-subversion-quick-start-with-coda.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech-tip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coda]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The piece on Version Control I wrote recently for MacUser magazine covered the basics of version control with GUI based programs. But what if your code editor doesn&#8217;t give you the ability to create repositories? In this case it&#8217;s easy to do the basic repository setup with Terminal and then use your code editor (e.g. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Version Control feature now published in MacUser magazine</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/06/version-control-feature-now-published-in-macuser-magazine.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/06/version-control-feature-now-published-in-macuser-magazine.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MacUser]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently written a feature for MacUser magazine on Version Control, more specifically Subversion (SVN) which has just hit the shelves of all good news-stands. If you work with code or documents and would like a fairly bulletproof way of tracking code changes, sharing code and collaborating with others without continually worrying about who has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super quick PSD to HTML/CSS and jQuery conversion for sk-style.co.uk</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/06/super-quick-psd-to-htmlcss-and-jquery-conversion-for-sk-style-co-uk.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HTML/CSS conversion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slideshow]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just completed a PSD to HTML/CSS and jQuery conversion for Conor Gaffney. His client had approved the PSD designs and needed the designs converted to clean code within a couple of days. It was a nice clean design, needing some snippets of jQuery to bring it to life. After the Vimeo introductory video, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VW Passat &#8216;Vader&#8217; advert &#8211; easily the funniest advert I have ever seen&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/05/vw-passat-vader-advert-funniest-advert-ever.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/05/vw-passat-vader-advert-funniest-advert-ever.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 10:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Funny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VW]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a child of the 70&#8242;s/80&#8242;s and a fan of the original Star Wars trilogy this could be amongst the funniest things you will ever see&#8230; I&#8217;ve only just seen this, the VW Passat &#8216;Vader&#8217; advert. There&#8217;s a few cuts of it. Here are my favourite two: I remember trying &#8216;the force&#8217; soooo many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HDR Light Studio feature on Maurice Panisch</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/05/hdr-light-studio-feature-on-maurice-panisch.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/05/hdr-light-studio-feature-on-maurice-panisch.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 14:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freelance writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HDR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lightmap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maurice Panisch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently had the pleasure of writing a feature on award winning 3D artist Maurice Panisch for HDR Light Studio. HDR Light Studio is a fantastic product by Lightmap that enables 3D artists and designers to light objects by using imaged based lighting. The company is looking to add more in-depth features on some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Coda CSS2 and CSS3 clips for solving common problems</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/05/free-coda-css2-and-css3-clips-for-solving-common-problems.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/05/free-coda-css2-and-css3-clips-for-solving-common-problems.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 14:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coda Clips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSS3]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I read a great collection of CSS snippets over on Speckyboy recently and decided to enter them as a Coda clips group. I&#8217;ve now uploaded the Clips group for any fellow Coda users out there. I left a few out that weren&#8217;t particular interesting to me but most of those featured here: http://speckyboy.com/2011/04/15/25-css-snippets-for-some-of-the-most-common-and-frustrating-tasks/ Anyway, without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magento &#8211; add an expanding accordion style vertical side menu</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/05/magento-add-an-expanding-accordion-style-vertical-side-menu.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/05/magento-add-an-expanding-accordion-style-vertical-side-menu.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 21:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jquery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magento]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magento Theming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vertical menu]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By default, Magento uses a horizontal drop-down menu. In this post we will &#8216;stand on the shoulders of giants&#8217; and use some jQuery to create an accordion style sidebar (vertical) menu. This is based on a 1.4.1.1 installation of Magento. The fantastic extension we will be using to create the sidebar based vertical menu is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Magento &#8211; how to add a cart summary to the header using local.xml</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/04/magento-how-to-add-a-cart-summary-to-the-header-using-local-xml.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/04/magento-how-to-add-a-cart-summary-to-the-header-using-local-xml.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech-tip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecommerce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local.xml]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magento]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theme design]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1130</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post will demonstrate how to add a shopping cart summary to the header of your Magento store using the local.xml file Given the amount of time Magento has been in the wild now, I thought finding good documentation on how to add a cart summary to the header of a site would be simple. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>SSD Obtibay upgrade Feature/How-to in latest MacUser magazine</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/04/ssd-obtibay-upgrade-featurehow-to-in-latest-macuser-magazine.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/04/ssd-obtibay-upgrade-featurehow-to-in-latest-macuser-magazine.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MacBook Pro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MacUser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MCE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OptiBay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SSD]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I contributed a piece to the latest MacUser magazine (149-2) which is a step by step on upgrading your MacBook Pro to Solid State Storage &#8211; but with an additional twist; this one covers how to have both a traditional hard drive in your MacBook (for the massive iPhoto/iTunes libraries) whilst also having a smaller [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Canon IXUS 220 HS Review</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/04/canon-ixus-220-hs-review.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/04/canon-ixus-220-hs-review.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canon Ixus 220 HS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nikon D40]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pentax Optio S]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1114</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have a scour around the net and you&#8217;ll see countless glowing reviews for the Canon Ixus 220 HS camera. Sadly I can&#8217;t add to them. The Ixus range has long been synonymous with quality compact cameras from the Canon stable. I&#8217;ve owned and enjoyed APS and digital variants of Ixus cameras in the past so I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Couple of Magento development books that are worth a look&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/03/couple-of-magento-development-books-that-are-worth-a-look.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/03/couple-of-magento-development-books-that-are-worth-a-look.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magento]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magento Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magento Theming]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have anything to do with e-commerce, chances are you have heard of Magento, the open-source e-commerce solution. Whilst it&#8217;s a very powerful solution, it&#8217;s also difficult to find conclusive documentation on it. Things have improved significantly of late with downloadable PDF&#8217;s like the Magento designer&#8217;s guide. However, Packt publishing sent a couple of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>A few WordPress development tips, tricks and shortcuts</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/02/wordpress-development-tips-tricks-and-shortcuts.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/02/wordpress-development-tips-tricks-and-shortcuts.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CDN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jquery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1088</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, first of all, I didn&#8217;t come up with these. I&#8217;ve found them through trial and error whilst wrestling a WordPress project I&#8217;m working on into submission and then tweaked them to my needs. They are in no particular order but if you are working on a WordPress template file in PHP, the following may [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>2011 MacBook Pro update. Apple &#8211; please ditch the optical drive!</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/02/2011-macbook-pro-update-apple-please-ditch-the-optical-drive.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/02/2011-macbook-pro-update-apple-please-ditch-the-optical-drive.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech-tip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MacBook Air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MacBook Pro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Momentus XT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SSD]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1082</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve owned (and sold) just about every computer Apple has made since 2000. My current weapon of choice is the MacBook Pro. It&#8217;s the only solution when you need a bit of oomph but you also need to take it with you (I&#8217;ve tried but a Mac Pro won&#8217;t fit in my rucksack no matter [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Final Cut Pro technology writing for Video Focus magazine</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/02/technolog-writing-for-video-focus-magazine.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/02/technolog-writing-for-video-focus-magazine.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Color]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compressor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Cut Pro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magazine writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video Editing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video Focus]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1080</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This January my technology writing has seen me writing six articles covering all aspects of Final Cut Pro for Video Focus magazine. It&#8217;s a specialist title aimed at semi-pro film makers and videographers who use the Final Cut editing software on a regular basis. My contributions included how to easily create a &#8216;skip bleach&#8217; effect [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>My incredibly popular PSD to HTML/CSS and jQuery service</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/02/psd-to-htmlcss-and-jquery-service.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/02/psd-to-htmlcss-and-jquery-service.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frontend Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HTML]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jquery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PSD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[semantics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[W3C]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1077</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The last quarter of 2010 and the first quarter of 2011 has seen me doing more PSD to HTML/CSS and jQuery conversions than ever before. It&#8217;s kept me so busy I&#8217;ve not been able to put half the posts up I would have liked. On the positive side, I&#8217;ve been performing PSD to HTML/CSS/jQuery conversions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Migrate IMAP mail accounts and messages from one server to another</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/11/migrate-imap-mail-accounts-and-messages-from-one-server-to-another.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/11/migrate-imap-mail-accounts-and-messages-from-one-server-to-another.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech-tip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IMAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thunderbird]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1030</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently switched the hosting of a customer from one server to another. I always set customer&#8217;s email up as IMAP so the mail is stored and can be accessed and synchronised on multiple devices. This &#8216;How to&#8217; is based on you having a similar setup. There are tools out there that perform this task [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Magento: how to add a jQuery image and content carousel</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/11/magento-how-to-add-a-jquery-image-and-content-carousel.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/11/magento-how-to-add-a-jquery-image-and-content-carousel.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carousel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jquery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magento]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1028</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to add a content carousel to your Magento based store? In this post I&#8217;ll explain how to set your Magento store to work with jQuery 1.4.3 and install a jQuery Carousel script for rotating content on any Magento page. If you&#8217;re designing a store in Magento one of the bug-bears for me has always [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cubecart: how to add sub-category descriptions to product pages</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/11/cubecart-how-to-add-sub-category-descriptions-to-product-pages.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/11/cubecart-how-to-add-sub-category-descriptions-to-product-pages.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cubecart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1026</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another little hard-earned nugget here that will help you out if you&#8217;re developing a site with Cubecart&#8230; So you have a product category and the only thing in it is sub-categories. So the landing page just shows an image of the subcategory, the title of the subcategory and the number of products in it. We [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>A beginner&#8217;s guide to Web Hosting (Computer Active feature)</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/10/a-beginners-guide-to-web-hosting-computer-active-feature.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/10/a-beginners-guide-to-web-hosting-computer-active-feature.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Computer Active]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NuBlue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Webhosting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1019</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month I wrote a piece for Computer Active about choosing web hosting. It&#8217;s a topic that can really confuse people so hopefully it will help un-muddy the waters for people considering what hosting company to go with and how to sort domains, forward domains to web space etc. It&#8217;s on news stands now, look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to add an expanding sidebar menu to your Cubecart store with jQuery</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/10/how-to-add-an-expanding-sidebar-menu-to-your-cubecart-store-with-jquery.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/10/how-to-add-an-expanding-sidebar-menu-to-your-cubecart-store-with-jquery.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech-tip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cubecart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expanding menu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jquery]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=1003</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pre-amble/bitch about Cubecart Cubecart is a difficult beast to develop for. Whilst the software is pretty stable (most of the stores I&#8217;ve worked with have been v4 based), the standard feature set is quite poor. Added to that, I find the Cubecart community a bit of a joke. Cubecart&#8217;s own support team (a payable service) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The best and comfiest indoor football (Futsol) trainers</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/09/best-and-comfiest-indoor-futsol-trainers.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/09/best-and-comfiest-indoor-futsol-trainers.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adidas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Futsol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trainers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uhlsport]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since writing my review of the Nike T7 zoom, and posting previous articles about indoor football trainers, I&#8217;ve had a few emails from players looking for advice on which trainers to buy for indoor football (Futsol). Now, I&#8217;m no professional sports player, and have no education in sports mechanics podiatry or similar so take my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cubecart: How to show sub-categories in the sidebar</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/09/cubecart-show-sub-categories.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/09/cubecart-show-sub-categories.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech-tip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cubecart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-commerce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[javascript]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=995</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By default, Cubecart v4 shows only the &#8216;top-level&#8217; product categories in the sidebar. If you&#8217;ve added additional sub-categories, you can enable the DHTML menu in Admin which gives drop down style &#8216;fly-out&#8217; menus. However, what if you want to show your sub-categories all the time? The DHTML menu option in Admin makes Cubecart creates nested [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>iTunes 10 doesn&#8217;t work on NAS drives, how to downgrade to iTunes 9.2</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/09/itunes-10-doesnt-work-on-nas-drives-how-to-downgrade-to-itunes-9-2.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/09/itunes-10-doesnt-work-on-nas-drives-how-to-downgrade-to-itunes-9-2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech-tip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[downgrade iTunes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iTunes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iTunes10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=986</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You may not like the new icon, but iTunes 10 has additional woes in store for NAS drive owners. In a staggering act of absent-mindedness, Apple has managed to break support for NAS drives in iTunes 10. When you try and access your NAS stored library you&#8217;ll get problems with it not opening, unable to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing photos between PC&#8217;s and Mac&#8217;s with a NAS drive &#8211; possible in iLife11?</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/09/sharing-photos-between-pcs-and-macs-with-a-nas-drive-possible-in-ilife11.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/09/sharing-photos-between-pcs-and-macs-with-a-nas-drive-possible-in-ilife11.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Computer Active]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iLife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhoto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Picasa]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=984</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As more and more households and agencies use NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices as a central storage repository, it&#8217;s becoming increasingly frustrating that there is currently no affordable cross platform, multiple user photo sharing software.I&#8217;ve recently written a Workshop for Computer Active magazine (there&#8217;ll be a link here when it&#8217;s published on their site but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Buffalo LinkStation Mini Review (LS-WSX1)</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/08/2010-buffalo-linkstation-mini-review-ls-wsx1.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/08/2010-buffalo-linkstation-mini-review-ls-wsx1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buffalo NAS review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LinkStation Mini review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LS-WSX1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAS Drive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Review]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=977</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Buffalo LinkStation Mini was first released in 2008, however, the 2010 version offers some significant benefits. The main interest for me was it&#8217;s complete lack of a fan for near silent running. Something of a rarity with Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. Having had a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo (review here) NAS device for some [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Addecoltd.co.uk goes live</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/08/addecoltd-co-uk-goes-live.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/08/addecoltd-co-uk-goes-live.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[960.gs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Addeco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grid system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jquery]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=972</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another little brochure site I&#8217;ve designed has gone live: www.addecoltd.co.uk. Addeco are a building and landscaping product manufacturer/supplier based in Stoke On Trent. This site is static HTML/CSS/jQuery and was built on top of the 960 grid system.The 960 grid system is a great tool when building &#8216;standard&#8217; block based sites and let&#8217;s you simply [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>A plea to the Working Tax Credits department of HM Revenue &amp; Customs</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/07/a-plea-to-the-working-tax-credits-department-of-hm-revenue-customs.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/07/a-plea-to-the-working-tax-credits-department-of-hm-revenue-customs.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newborn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working Tax Credits]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=961</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve only just got around to filling in a Working Tax Credit form to discover back payments are only usually made upto 3 months ago. I&#8217;m sure (and hope) someone there will understand my plight&#8230; Working Tax Credits Department HM Revenue &#038; Customs Tax Credit Office Comben House Farriers Way Netherton L75 1BY Dear Sir/Madam, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Beginners guide to HTML5, what you need to know and how to use it.</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/07/beginners-guide-to-html5-what-you-need-to-know-and-how-to-use-it.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/07/beginners-guide-to-html5-what-you-need-to-know-and-how-to-use-it.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech-tip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HTML]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HTML5]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ogg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[semantics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[W3C]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=906</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[HTML5 is the successor to HTML 4.01, the language most web pages on the Internet are written in. HTML5 offers new semantic elements, direct support for video and audio, built-in form validation and a smart new canvas feature. In this article I&#8217;ll attempt to explain what&#8217;s important about HTML5 and what you need to know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iOS 4 is well worth the update</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/06/ios-4-is-well-worth-the-update.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/06/ios-4-is-well-worth-the-update.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iOS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iOS4]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone 3GS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone4]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=849</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m running a iPhone 3GS at present and I have to say that based on early usage, the latest OS release (iOS4) that came out last night is a cracking update. Everything seems that little bit faster, the multitasking is great (for apps that support it) and the unified inbox makes it heaps easier to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>£150 off laser eye surgery at Optical Express. Optical Express voucher for money off.</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/06/150-off-laser-treatment-at-optical-express.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/06/150-off-laser-treatment-at-optical-express.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LASER SURGERY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money Off Lasik]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money Off Optical Express]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Optical Express voucher]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/blog/?p=155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[STATUS: I don&#8217;t have any up-to-date vouchers currently. Sorry! Would you like £150 off laser eye surgery at Optical Express? I&#8217;ve been sent some loyalty &#8216;Money Off&#8217; vouchers from them (I had my own eyes &#8216;lasered&#8217; there). If you book to have laser eye correction you get £150 off your treatment and I get £150 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lost &#8216;The End&#8217; season finale &#8211; a discussion&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/06/lost-the-end-season-finale-a-discussion.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/06/lost-the-end-season-finale-a-discussion.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lost final episode]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lost finale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lost The End]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV Lost]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=835</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First off, don&#8217;t carry on reading if you haven&#8217;t watched every episode of Lost yet. This will spoil it. OK? Here I&#8217;ll be writing about the ending of the TV series &#8216;Lost&#8216;&#8230; Right, first things first. I&#8217;ve loved watching Lost. It&#8217;s been a seminal series and some of the best TV drama I&#8217;ve watched for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ever had one of these clients&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/05/ever-had-one-of-these-clients.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/05/ever-had-one-of-these-clients.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 16:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Client vs designer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Designer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[difficult customer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hilarious youtube video]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The folks over at Push Creative forwarded this to me months back and every so often I go back for another watch. 2 minutes of genius&#8230;. If you&#8217;re self employed and work in the creative industries, there&#8217;s a good chance you will enjoy this. I think most freelancers and creative agencies have had one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building the Healthy Retreat e-commerce website with Foxycart</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/05/building-the-healthy-retreat-e-commerce-website-with-foxycart.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/05/building-the-healthy-retreat-e-commerce-website-with-foxycart.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 16:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-commerce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foxycart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MODX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web site]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=830</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2008 I built the Healthy Retreat website. Due to continued success the owners have decided to start selling Pevonia beauty products online. The product line is fairly static and they didn&#8217;t require stock maintenance facilities so I built the store shopping cart functionality using Foxycart. Foxycart is a little different than usual e-commerce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review of Audi A1 vs Mini Cooper</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/05/review-of-audi-a1-vs-mini-cooper.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/05/review-of-audi-a1-vs-mini-cooper.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 16:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 Fiesta ST]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audi A1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mini Cooper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nissan Juke]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=825</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s simply no exciting small cars&#8230; I&#8217;ve long been a fan of the (BMW) Mini Cooper. However, having had a 2002 Mini Cooper and a 2005 Cooper S I was left a little cold when I went to look at the 2010 models. The interior looks like a Fiat Punto I had in 1997! The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magento upgrades will kill your store (probably)</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/05/magento-upgrades-will-kill-your-store-probably.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/05/magento-upgrades-will-kill-your-store-probably.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 11:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech-tip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magento errors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magento upgrades]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=822</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I find it staggering that every release of Magento is a complete gamble as to whether it destroys your store or not. I&#8217;ve upgraded Magento sites about 8 times and EVERY time has been an absolute pain in the arse resulting in hours spent fixing annoying niggly errors. I now take the policy of not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remove all products in your Magento store with PHPMyAdmin</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/05/remove-all-products-in-your-magento-store-with-phpmyadmin.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2010/05/remove-all-products-in-your-magento-store-with-phpmyadmin.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 11:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech-tip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magento upgrades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PHPMyAdmin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain.com/notepad/?p=815</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After upgrading a store to 1.4.0.1 I found I was unable to delete/amend products in the backend. The only solution was delete all products in the database. Here is the command/query I used. Please note: ensure you have a backup of your site and data before running this. It worked for me, it may not [...]]]></description>
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