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		<title>10 Things Every Good Web Developer Should Know (A Checklist)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My favorite thing about web development is the wide variety of skills it uses.  Being a good developer means staying on your toes and always learning, because there are so many important skills and these are constantly changing.

Here's a checklist of 10 skills that are some of the most important for good web developers to have.  These focus a bit on front-end skills, but they apply to all developers:

<span class="more-link"><a href="http://jonraasch.com/blog/10-things-every-web-developer-should-know-2#more-299" title="Continue reading this post" rel="nofollow">(more&#8230;)</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Too much Javascript?  Here comes WebKit and the new Safari</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let it not be said that I never fall victim to a web fad: AJAX, jQuery, SEO‚ÄîI was there with bells on. So when everyone started hating Flash and doing all web animation with HTML/Javascript, I jumped right on board. I thought it was just great! You didn&#8217;t have to lose any SEO, and most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lumifi &#8211; Web Search Without a Web Browser</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There‚Äôs a new search engine being showcased on Apple.com‚Äôs widget download page, lumifi¬Æ , which, unlike other search engines, does not run through a web browser. With web search being so integral to our computer lives, is it preferable to search through a website or an application? Lumifi‚Äôs marketing department provides one answer : ‚Äúlumifi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>jQuery Animation and SEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I put a bit of jQuery on my site, animating the links in my art portfolio section. Check it out. I really like jQuery actually, it looks nice, and its a great way to liven up a site&#8217;s visuals without using Flash and losing all that SEO. The problem is that jQuery, which is essentially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO Friendly AJAX</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AJAX isn&#8217;t typically thought of as being very search engine friendly. This is because search engines don&#8217;t process any JavaScript, which AJAX is built upon. I&#8217;m using a ton of AJAX on this one search engine site. In fact, the search engine itself is done in AJAX since it makes for quick page loads and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Site Facelift</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple days I&#8217;ve been redesigning my website.First, I made a design for my website in Illustrator that I&#8217;m happy with. What&#8217;s better is that I was able to implement it fully in a matter of minutes because of the clean template structure I used previously. I had wanted for some time to [...]]]></description>
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