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		<title>Translation plugin for WordPress</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/improving-your-gite-website/translation-plugin-for-wordpress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Improving your Gite Website]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a big believer in catering for foreign language visitors to holiday rental websites. Inevitably most of my client&#8217;s guests come from another country, and mostly speak a different language. Whilst many do understand english to an advanced level, those who don&#8217;t could be missed bookings. With that in mind, I wrote on here about [...]<div id="related">Related posts:<ol>
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<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/improving-your-gite-website/favourite-wordpress-plugins/' rel='bookmark' title='Favourite WordPress plugins'>Favourite WordPress plugins</a> <small>I only found out this morning that yesterday (28th Jan)...</small></li>
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		<title>Closing the deal with Live Help</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Improving your Gite Website]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As well as building holiday rental websites I also run 4 pretty successful e-commerce websites, and recently I&#8217;ve been looking at ways to improve my conversion rates on those sites. Often customers have a quick question they need answering before making a purchase, and it&#8217;s no different when guests are considering coming to stay at [...]
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		<title>New service: multi-lingual websites</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Improving your Gite Website]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given Sterling&#8217;s recent weakness against the Euro, holiday rental owners in the Eurozone have been increasingly keen this year to look to other Eurozone members for guests. Increasingly I&#8217;ve been asked whether I can build multi-lingual websites, and whether I can source the translations for these sites. The answer to both questions is &#8220;yes&#8221;. It [...]<div id="related">Related posts:<ol>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/gite-website-design/multilingual-websites/' rel='bookmark' title='Multilingual websites'>Multilingual websites</a> <small>With the pound weak against the Euro (and pretty much...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/improving-your-gite-website/multilingual-gite-websites-with-wordpress-using-wpml-plugin/' rel='bookmark' title='Multilingual Gite Websites with WordPress using WPML plugin'>Multilingual Gite Websites with WordPress using WPML plugin</a> <small>With the Euro hammering Sterling, more and more gite owners...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/improving-your-gite-website/translation-plugin-for-wordpress/' rel='bookmark' title='Translation plugin for WordPress'>Translation plugin for WordPress</a> <small>I&#8217;m a big believer in catering for foreign language visitors...</small></li>
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		<title>Are you suffering from Google Fear?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 09:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[improve page rank]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://giteguru.com/?p=567</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Def: &#8220;A crippling fear of updating your website home page for fear of adversely affecting your Google search ranking &#38; traffic&#8221;. You built your website a couple of years back, you&#8217;ve spent time (possibly money) getting your Seach Engine Optimisation right, and you&#8217;re proud of your Google traffic and page rank. You know that the [...]<div id="related">Related posts:<ol>
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		<title>Multilingual Gite Websites with WordPress using WPML plugin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Euro hammering Sterling, more and more gite owners are looking to new markets to attract visitors. To do this, you need to be found in the right search engines, for the right search phrases, and then engage with the visitor in their own language to &#8216;seal the deal&#8217;. I&#8217;m increasingly asked to design [...]<div id="related">Related posts:<ol>
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<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/starting-gite-website/orange-mist-random-wordpress-theme-for-property-rental-websites/' rel='bookmark' title='Orange Mist Random WordPress theme for property rental websites'>Orange Mist Random WordPress theme for property rental websites</a> <small>I get a lot of questions both on the site...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/gite-website-design/multilingual-websites/' rel='bookmark' title='Multilingual websites'>Multilingual websites</a> <small>With the pound weak against the Euro (and pretty much...</small></li>
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		<title>Cross-browser testing for your gite website</title>
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		<comments>http://giteguru.com/improving-your-gite-website/cross-browser-testing-for-your-gite-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst working on some improvements to Rent a Gite in France, I decided to check that the changes I&#8217;d made the the theme I was using hadn&#8217;t broken anything in the various browsers, and I did this using a free tool called Browser Shots. This tool is invaluable to website designers as it allows you [...]
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		<title>Video: How to move your WordPress blog from one server to another</title>
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		<comments>http://giteguru.com/improving-your-gite-website/video-how-to-move-your-wordpress-blog-from-one-server-to-another/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in the process of moving all my sites from one server to another, and I&#8217;ve been asked by a couple of people how it&#8217;s done. It&#8217;s not straight forward unfortunately, but with a bit of care, it&#8217;s something anyone can do. The slightly rambling video (15 mins) is below with voiceover, but volume playback [...]<div id="related">Related posts:<ol>
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<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/wordpress-tutorials/wordpress-tutorial-5-using-widgets/' rel='bookmark' title='WordPress Tutorial 5: Using Widgets'>WordPress Tutorial 5: Using Widgets</a> <small>The video below is a beginners guide to how to...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/starting-gite-website/how-to-manually-install-wordpress-on-your-web-server/' rel='bookmark' title='How to manually install wordpress on your web server'>How to manually install wordpress on your web server</a> <small>Been asked a few questions by email and in forums...</small></li>
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		<title>Favourite plugins 2: My Page Order</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/improving-your-gite-website/favourite-plugins-2-my-page-order/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/improving-your-gite-website/favourite-plugins-2-my-page-order/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://giteguru.com/?p=398</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This one is critical for the layout of any blog, as the build in WordPress page ordering function is in their own words crap &#8217;clunky&#8217; and despite ongoing promises, it&#8217;s still not fixed in WordPress 2.7.  There seems to be no rhyme nor reason to the default page order WordPress assigns, which makes creating a sensible [...]<div id="related">Related posts:<ol>
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<li><a href='http://giteguru.com/improving-your-gite-website/favourite-wordpress-plugins/' rel='bookmark' title='Favourite WordPress plugins'>Favourite WordPress plugins</a> <small>I only found out this morning that yesterday (28th Jan)...</small></li>
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		<title>Favourite WordPress plugins</title>
		<link>http://giteguru.com/improving-your-gite-website/favourite-wordpress-plugins/</link>
		<comments>http://giteguru.com/improving-your-gite-website/favourite-wordpress-plugins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I only found out this morning that yesterday (28th Jan) was Thank A Plugin Developer Day over at WordPress, the idea being a day focused on given thanks and financial support to the thousands of WordPress plugin developers. Well I missed it, so I feel the need to make amends. When I design a website [...]<div id="related">Related posts:<ol>
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		<title>Editing and optimising images</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a website designer for holiday rental property owners, and one of the questions that crops up all the time is image size and quality.  Whereas the majority of UK households are now on broadband, many around the world are not, and indeed, the definition of broadband is pretty loose. As I write, I&#8217;m on [...]<div id="related">Related posts:<ol>
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