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	<title>A blog about time tracking, task management project management, and other useful tales and tips,  from the minds at Intervals &#187; design</title>
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	<description>A collection of useful tips, tales and opinions based on decades of collective experience designing and developing web sites and web-based applications.</description>
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		<title>Looking Back On My First Time @ SXSW</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/03/23/looking-back-on-my-first-time-at-sxsw-interactive-design-development-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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For as long as I&#8217;ve been doing web design and development I must confess that this was my first year attending the famed SXSW festival. My cohorts at Pelago are all SXSW veterans and were willing to drag me along as their token noob, so I jumped at the chance to finally go and see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Anatomy of a Well Designed Invoice</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/02/23/the-anatomy-of-a-well-designed-invoice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that you&#8217;ve drummed up some business as a freelancer, a web design and development shop, or a creative agency, it&#8217;s time to start collecting money owed. Billing clients is easily done with an invoice. If you use an accounting program like QuickBooks or an online project management application like Intervals, they will create an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Survival Tips for Creatives</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/09/08/3-survival-tips-for-creatives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first stepped out into the real world as a creative professional, my college diploma and senior portfolio under my arm, I soon encountered the Client. We experienced some client interaction in school — mostly in the form of competing against classmates to have our logo chosen for a local non-profit — but nothing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Project Management for Creatives</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/03/24/project-management-for-creatives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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Project management has a wide range of definitions. At one end, there is the Project Management Body of Knowledge Guide, defined by the Project Management Institute. This extensive definition of project management is mismatched to how small businesses work, and is primarily what agile development, and simplified web 2.0 services, are revolting against. At the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design Can Change</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/03/21/design-can-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a graphic designer who is also interested in sustainability, visit Design Can Change and take the pledge.

Designers actually have more potential to slow environmental degradation than economists, politicians and environmentalists. Their power is catalytic.
Alastair Faud-Luke

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		<title>Three Lessons on Writing Code, From a Graphic Designer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When writing code — HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, or whatever — it is important to remember that yourself and others will read and interpret that code again at some point. In addition to being free of syntax errors and bugs, your code needs to be human readable. Here are three fundamental graphic design principals that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Examples of Consistent Logo Design</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/03/13/three-examples-of-consistent-logo-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oscar Wilde once said &#8220;consistency is the last refuge for the unimaginative.&#8221; While this should, and does, hold true for our most adventurous endeavors, there are times when consistency is necessary. For example, in logo design. Given all the responsibilities it must carry on its back, the logo has enormous responsibility to the company it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Design</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/03/12/sustainable-design/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/03/12/sustainable-design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sustainability is an increasingly popular buzzword being thrown about the Internet, but what does it mean? And more specifically, what does it mean for designers? 
At Pelago, it means a few things:

Printing our collateral on recycled papers using enviro-friendly inks
Using the laser printer only when necessary, and trying to keep printouts on one page
Recycling our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Library of Congress&#8217; photos</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/03/05/the-library-of-congress-photos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/03/05/the-library-of-congress-photos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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It used to be that a designer wanting copyright-free reproductions of these classic photos would have to go through a lot of work to get them. Now flickr has them online, for your perusal and downloading. Add these retro photos to your next design project or web site redux
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		<title>7 Reasons You Should Charge by the Hour</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/03/04/7-reasons-you-should-charge-by-the-hour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/03/04/7-reasons-you-should-charge-by-the-hour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Griffin has posted &#8220;7 Reasons You Shouldn&#8217;t Charge by the Hour.&#8221; Pelago&#8216;s experiences and struggles over the last eight years have taught us to avoid flat-rate billing like the plague. Here are 7 reasons why you should bill hourly.

It&#8217;s a long-term, personal investment
Starting and stopping timers is a discipline that takes some practice. Training [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Things To All People</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/03/03/all-things-to-all-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/03/03/all-things-to-all-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our company&#8217;s eight-year history and experiences with web development have taught us many lessons about running a small business. One of the most important lessons learned was that we can&#8217;t be all things to all people. 
When we first started up in August of 2000, we tried to do it all; print design, logo design, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elements of Design</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/01/16/elements-of-design/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2008/01/16/elements-of-design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reeve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Smiley Cat Web Design Blog has a amassed an impressive collection of web design elements, useful for comparing design treatments from a wide variety of web designers. They are collecting everything from blog comment form examples, to typography.
The pricing tables page is notable because the they are relatively new design elements in the web [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interface Tuning Continues</title>
		<link>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2006/02/10/interface-tuning-continues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2006/02/10/interface-tuning-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We think you&#8217;ll appreciate that Intervals is being designed and developed by a firm that knows design and development. We&#8217;re not loading it up with tons of cool functionality that&#8217;s hard to look at or hard to use, or making it pretty but useless:

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