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	<description>mario alberto rosas</description>
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		<title>You can only do&#8230; what I want you to do. Starring: DirecTV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my eternal struggle with web sites that provide service to their customers I have come across a pattern. Poorly constructed sites are difficult to use while beautifully constructed sites are easy to use. True statement. Right? Not so fast&#8230; A poorly constructed site uses too much copy, has dated graphics, and gives no consideration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mariorosas.com/?p=223</link>
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		<title>Safe Ride Logo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just jammed out this logo for OU&#8217;s Safe Ride program. Since they already have a logo they are sticking with, this one&#8217;s for sale Green Version with some texture. Come on in to check on the other color versions. Cool Blue version. School Colors!]]></description>
		<link>http://mariorosas.com/?p=216</link>
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		<title>Navigation Study</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My office is giving the OU Web Communications site a much needed overhaul. Along with updated content, information architecture and icons I am redesigning the main navigation. The site uses left navigation that can go up to three levels deep. Here is a look at my initial pass at the navigation. I think its coming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mariorosas.com/?p=202</link>
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		<title>Cinematic Artists of Norman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Cassie Ketrick is passionate about her feet, the color turquoise and film. Her love of film lead her to found CAN (Cinematic Artists of Norman) CAN&#8217;s mission is to strengthen the Norman film community by providing resources and outlets for anyone who wants to make films. I was impressed with the initiative Cassie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mariorosas.com/?p=188</link>
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		<title>AIGA Oklahoma 20 x 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was honored to be invited to speak at a recent AIGA Oklahoma event called 20 x 2. 20 designers had 2 minutes each to speak about the future of design in Oklahoma. 2 minutes? brutal. I decided to talk about web usability and how important setting goals for your site and organizing your information [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mariorosas.com/?p=197</link>
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		<title>Logo Schmogo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although my primary responsibility is laying out web sites and testing them when they are finished, sometime I get the chance to extend my creativity into logos and wordmarks. Here is a quick look at a couple logos/wordmarks I&#8217;ve done while at OU. Open Source was created as a way for the OU community to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mariorosas.com/?p=179</link>
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		<title>Metal Bliss from the Balcony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Brady Theater is the second best venue in Oklahoma (right behind Cain&#8217;s Ballroom). Having already seen Tom Waits at the Brady, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to go back and see Brendon Small&#8217;s Deathklok! When I found out that Mastodon, Converge AND High on Fire were going to perform on the same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mariorosas.com/?p=152</link>
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		<title>&#8230;and you will know us by the trail of dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FINALLY!!! I pee&#8217;d a little when i found out that trial of dead was coming to OKC &#8211; to the conservatory no less! For a band so near (they are from Austin, TX) and dear (Source tags and Code is in my top 10 all time albums) I&#8217;ve never had the chance to see them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mariorosas.com/?p=134</link>
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		<title>Data vs. Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We just launched a new search.ou.edu. Christian Colon, The Mad Scientist of Web Development, did all of the back-end work while yours truly did the design and CSS presentation. Im happy with the way it turned out. It uses the same layout and most of the same design elements as the new ou.edu, with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mariorosas.com/?p=132</link>
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		<title>Giving Birth: New OU Home Page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel like I&#8217;ve given birth&#8230; without all the epidurals, tax credits and stitches. After 4 months of design and development a new www.ou.edu is about to launch. Since we actually have some kickass content like a great YouTube channel, Facebook Fan Page and a Blog,  we took a more modular approach letting the content [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mariorosas.com/?p=128</link>
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