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		<title>Make strategy a part of your offering</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web design has reached a point of maturity where we should no longer simply be a collection of pages ripped from a corporate brochure. There used to be a time where as web designers we did little more than apply a splash of paint to an assortment of text and images. This was OK as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of controling feedback and critique</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any designer who has produced work for anyone other than themselves knows how tricky the design feedback process can be. As designers we have very specific reasons for designing a site the way we do. We have expertise in rhythm, proportion, sizing, whitespace, grids and other graphic design concepts. Many times hours are spent trying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working on working on work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.3point7designs.com/blog/?p=314</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When running your own business, especially a small one (meaning it is myself and two helpers) I often find that you can spend just as much time (if not more) on all the details surrounding work as the actual billable hours themselves.
When I say this I don&#8217;t necessarily mean doing all the non-fun things like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We are all consultants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.3point7designs.com/blog/?p=287</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have never been the type that has been overly pushy about my opinion. In a lot of ways that has helped me in regards to my business, as there have been times where I disagreed with a client I was able to quietly sit back and do things their way rather than offend them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t Design for your Client, or Yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently did a presentation called &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter if you like it&#8230;&#8221; in which I talked to marketing professionals about how their is a fundamental flaw in the way many people go about designing, or having something design.
I often talk about how a large part of design is communication. With so many CSS Galleries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing for Personality Profiles (Optimizing Landing Pages, Part 3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Optimizing Landing Pages&#8221; is an on going series that will total 20 posts. The series is written by 3.7 DESIGNS and Ross Johnson to help web professionals build sites that achieve specific business goals. This is post 3, and the topic is &#8220;Writing for Personality Profiles.&#8221;
As much as us designers would like to think that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design Discovery Document, What I Use to Learn More About Client Needs…</title>
		<link>http://findfreetools.com/internet-marketing/design-discovery-document-what-i-use-to-learn-more-about-client-needs%e2%80%a6/334/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Johnson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently posted about how to improve your creative process, and one of the core elements of that process is learning everything you can about what the client wants, expects, and needs to gain from the creative deliverables. Really the core of this learning process is asking the right questions and guiding the client in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As designers we need to use more adjectives in our work…</title>
		<link>http://findfreetools.com/web-design/as-designers-we-need-to-use-more-adjectives-in-our-work%e2%80%a6/335/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adjectives? Wait am I confused? Should I be talking about copy writing? No no, I assure you I am in fact talking about design. Like many of you I am always browsing through galleries and assessing new web site launches, because I am interested in seeing what type of working is being done outside my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ever experienced this in the creative process?</title>
		<link>http://findfreetools.com/misc/ever-experienced-this-in-the-creative-process/343/</link>
		<comments>http://findfreetools.com/misc/ever-experienced-this-in-the-creative-process/343/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Johnson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hate to say it but it hits pretty close to home. Anyone else? I have found that the more active I am in explaining and defending design decisions the better the whole process goes, but sometimes you just run into these nightmare situations.

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		<title>Optimizing Your Landing Pages, Part 2 – Copy Basics</title>
		<link>http://findfreetools.com/web-design/optimizing-your-landing-pages-part-2-%e2%80%93-copy-basics/345/</link>
		<comments>http://findfreetools.com/web-design/optimizing-your-landing-pages-part-2-%e2%80%93-copy-basics/345/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Johnson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Optimizing Landing Pages&#8221; is an on going series that will total 20 posts. The series is written by 3.7 DESIGNS and Ross Johnson to help web professionals build sites that achieve specific business goals. This is post 3, and the topic is &#8220;Writing for Personality Profiles.&#8221;
Pay Attention To Your Copy
After you have thought about and [...]]]></description>
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