Responsibilities Of A Web Designer

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Since the advent of internet, web designing and web designer have gained huge popularity. But what is web design and what is its necessity? Web design is the art of creatively presenting the content to the end user through a World Wide Web by using a web browser or web enabled software. The main aim of web design is to create a web site (collection of electronic files inside a web server) and present its content and attractive features to its user in the form of web pages.

With growing demand for information technology, web design is gaining huge prominence. As a result the number of people taking up web design as profession is also on the rise. Working as a web designer could be quite taxing as it comes with lot of responsibility and burden. For instance- when you are assigned the work of developing a web page critical to someones business, you are confronted with a situation where even a slightest error could ruin the other persons business.

Web designing is no doubt a very lucrative profession but before jumping to conclusions, it is important that each of us understand what is it that is expected out of a web designer? This is something we all would like to know. Some of the responsibilities of web designer are discussed below:

Confidentiality: Most often than not web designers are provided access to business critical resources like servers, passwords, usernames, databases and other strategic information. In such situations, web designers need to make sure that they maintain absolute confidentiality, not to lose any data, not overwrite documents without archiving them, record information every time your replace a user account, record information on timely basis from previous hosting and record information in a secure manner.

Responsibility: Even though it is not mentioned in the contract, business performance is one of the prime responsibilities of a web designer. A web designer needs to make sure that he uses appropriate redirects and thus follows traffic along new pages, use robots.txt to block access to private areas and ensure that popular content continues to exist in the new site.

Managing financial data: Management of financial data and email accounts is also a part of web designers job responsibility. Since he has access to all most all kinds of information, he needs to follow few ethics. For instance- in case he is required to check his clients email account, he needs to inform the same to his client and guarantee his client about privacy of critical and personal information.

Although this entire process seems to look easy, web design is quite complicated in itself as it crosses multiple disciplines including information system, information technology and communication design. Despite its complexity, web design is an ongoing activity. Hence before creating and uploading a website, it is important to devote sufficient time to plan what is required considering target audience or target market as well as the purpose for which the content is going to be developed.

The Best Way To Launch Your Website

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With the exponential growth in the online market, the race among the business companies is getting tougher and tougher. Every one is looking to attract the traffic with their unique features. However, any one will agree that there are certain levels or steps of attraction. Often, something catches your eye at the first sight and you watch it with ardent passion.

The same thing applies to the websites as well. There are sites that are so attractive that you hardly have the ability to avoid them. They will compel you to visit the site. On the other hand, there are sites that look pretty ordinary. Naturally, a person will not visit them anticipating a dull content.

Well, this is the last thing that the owner of the website wants. Certainly, the lack of traffic is synonymous to the death of the website. So, one can clearly see that the web design is a crucial factor as far as the business is concerned.

In fact, success in business relies largely on the impression that you make on the consumer. There are actually, two tiers of impression one that is made at the first time, and the other that you make after the consumer checks out your service. Though the second one is the long lasting, the first one is important to encourage them to check you out.

This is perhaps enough to explain why companies ranging from the small to medium sized businesses are looking for the web designers. No matter whether you are launching a new business, or you have been around for quite a while, having a good designer to decorate your website is a must for success.

However, only an expert designer is not sufficient to give the site the look that it deserves. The owner should play an important role as well. The web designer will tell from his experience the qualities that you need to upgrade the standard of the quality. But the inputs from the business owner would decide the content and exact nature of the website.

Generally, the owner should contribute a lot in the graphics and layout of the site. Well, you may say that the graphic and web designers are creative enough to create the logo and design the page. Of course, they are. But, it is company and you will understand what suits the theme or motive of your company the most.

Well, nothing can separate web designing and hosting. One is interrelated with the other. After designing the page properly, you should give it to the search engine optimizer. Here also, you have to provide key information on your company. The SEO will highlight the unique features that your company offers.

However, if you are looking for affordable web design, vondix media is the ideal solution. They offer web designing, shopping cart, animation, graphics, SEO, web hosting and promotion a complete package for your website. They will also create multiple email accounts, logo and will also edit the text of your content.

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PROVAB is one such organization which offers a comprehensive list of services to meet all the designing factors including custom website designing, bespoke corporate designs, dynamic web designing, content management system, website template design, flash designs.

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Laptop Theft – Analysis

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Statistics

*A laptop is stolen every 53 seconds in the USA – Symantec
*Over 600,000 laptops are stolen each year in the USA – Safeware Insurance Agency
*97% of these laptops are never recovered – FBI
*The second most common crime, just after identity theft, is laptop theft – FBI
*Lost or stolen laptops are the top culprit of data leaks/breaches, accounting for 45% (of all the incidents studied) – The Identity Theft Resource Center
*Laptops are the number-one item stolen in San Francisco – San Francisco Police Department

The Fear of Theft

As laptops become more common, the laptop theft rate is also rising at an alarming pace. Laptops are a favorite item among thieves due to the ease in which they can be transported and resold.
*Portability and complacency make laptops an easy steal – Montreal Mirror, October 5, 2006
*Laptops have legs. You need to keep them chained (even at home) – Safety tip from a personal blog

Where Laptops are Stolen – Locations

Nowadays people take their laptops with them everywhere. In addition to work, school and travel, the proliferation of wireless internet hot zones have people bringing laptops out in the street, using them in public cafes.
*Police say normally quiet cafes are becoming hunting grounds for laptop bandits – San Francisco Chronicle, April 8, 2006
*”Where else do you have a thousand-dollar item sitting on a table in a coffee shop?” – San Francisco Chronicle, April 8, 2006
*University campuses are turning out to be a crook’s best friend. Jacques Lachance, a security investigator at Concordia University, estimates that one laptop a week is stolen at the University. – Montreal Mirror, October 5, 2006
*Thieves are also making a killing stealing laptops from cars. According to the Montreal Police Service, 3,928 portable computers were stolen from vehicles last year, up from 2,870 reported thefts the year before. “Sometimes students will lock their laptop in their car but it’s still visible,” Lachance says. “Or they’ll think it’s secure in the trunk, but people watch them go to their car, and later they’ll just break through the trunk.” – Montreal Mirror, October 5, 2006
*Many airports are full of professional thieves who make a living from stealing laptops and selling the content of the hard drive to the highest bidder. – Traveling Light, The Entourage Help Page

Aftermath

Once your laptop is stolen, the likelihood of recovering anything from your loss is quite slim. Losing your laptop is devastating and quite costly when you consider the priceless photos, files and personal information you have stored, in addition to the expensive hardware.
*There is nothing that can prepare you for the feeling of loss and the dread that comes with knowing that your personal data is gone forever. While it is very inconvenient and can be very expensive to replace the laptop itself, NOTHING can replace the hours of hard work that is stored on your computer. – The UK Web Design Company
*”Three months after I lost my laptop and started rebuilding my files, I still have only one third of my data recovered,” says Ms. Gilbert. “It will be at least six months before I will reach full productivity, and I’ll never have everything back”. She lost sleep and spent countless anxious weeks worrying about client information and how she was going to stay on top of her projects. “I never want to go through it again,” says Gilbert. – Lessons in Data Loss: A Case Study, Data Deposit Box
*For personal computer users there are mp3 playlists, emails, personal photo albums, and other important files. For the professional computer user, the stakes are higher…perhaps it’s the accounting data for your company’s 3rd quarter earnings, the PowerPoint presentation you will be giving to the CEO on Thursday afternoon, or the proposal that needs to be sent to the European office A.S.A.P. There are some real horror stories about the financial impact to a corporation of having its entire five-year marketing plan stolen along with someone’s laptop. – The UK Web Design Company
*Dr Chetan Ruprai, 28, a specialist registrar in the maternity ward at York Hospital, is desperate to get her laptop back. The machine contains three years worth of painstaking medical research which cannot be replaced and is vital to her career. “This is very distressing and I will do anything to get it back” she said. – The Press, January 27, 2007
*I was out the cost of the laptop plus I had to redo 3 websites I built. Backups were stolen too. The theft of my laptop cost me thousands. – Personal blog post
*Of course I filed a police report, but I’ve already said goodbye to years and years worth of memories. Photos, videos, documents… some (very few) of which were backed up but most are now in the hands of a thief. – Personal blog post

Besides storing all your invaluable data, laptops also serve as an extremely important work, communication and entertainment tool. In our computer dependent society, it’s not surprising that victims of laptop theft often feel an immense sense of loss and anguish.
*Losing a laptop is a traumatic experience… I know it was a total disaster for me. All my email was gone, my photos from the Russia/Ukraine holiday, the new OKS features I wrote on the plane coming here, and so on. Of course, I was left without my slides for my meeting the next day, and with no laptop to conduct my course Wednesday-Friday. – Personal blog post
*After my laptop was stolen, I definitely had a good cry. There’s a feeling of depression perhaps and certainly futility. I miss the first computer that was truly mine. I liked that laptop! I’m missing my pictures and notes. I’m missing the Mac software I had figured out how to use. Without a computer, I can’t send email or blog. I can’t watch videos. Having my laptop stolen affected my lifestyle, my community, my mental and emotional wellbeing. I was mad that my family and I had to pay the price for someone else’s actions with both time and money… – Personal blog post
*You can steal my car, my money, my shoes, I don’t really care, but don’t steal my damn laptop! – Personal blog post
*Oh I had insurance. Insurance doesn’t cover weeks of modeling time done on my laptop, or a sketchbook nearly filled with drawings or notes. So as all the other architecture students are looking forward to a break from the studio, a time to spend with family at the dinner table enjoying Thanksgiving and in front of the TV enjoying football and beer, I look forward to 100 hours in front of a drafting table and a laptop borrowed from the school, drafting and CADing to my hearts content. Why me? Why now? What did I do to deserve this? – Personal blog post
*I’m a graduate Store Writing student at USC. I write fiction, nonfiction and screenplays. As a result of the theft of my laptop, I lost some pieces I had written, I had to buy a new laptop, and I was pained emotionally because of the incident. I felt, and still feel very wronged, and taken. It makes me sick to know someone has my laptop with my personal files. – Personal blog post
*It was like you cut off my arm. I had my whole life on my laptop. Two novels, years of photos, work files, and more. Since I’m a full-time volunteer these days, I have no money to buy a new computer. – Personal blog post
*As I slept, someone entered the house and stole my laptop, backpack, wallet, cell phone, and iPod. All while I slept. My life revolves around that laptop and the loss is monumental to me. – Personal blog post
*Fortunately, whoever entered my abode and took my possessions didn’t kill or maim me. But the loss of my LIFE, which was entirely wrapped up in that laptop, is almost too much for me to bear. All day I’ve been making phone calls, leaning on good friends for support, and changing what passcodes I can in an attempt to thwart the upcoming identity theft, or whatever else the thief decides to do with my personal information. – Personal blog post

Small businesses might have the most to lose when a laptop goes missing. The loss of vital data such as client information, accounting records or business plans could all spell disaster for a small business.

*The day my laptop was stolen almost killed my business. The laptop can be replaced. However the loss of critical DATA was the biggest risk my business has ever faced. – The UK Web Design Company
*Users today store more mission-critical data than ever before, so a lost laptop is a huge issue for a small business owner. In total, 7 out of 10 small businesses go bankrupt within a year of experiencing a major data loss. – Lessons in Data Loss: A Case Study, Data Deposit Box

As seen in the news recently, even large companies such as Boeing and Fidelity are not immune to theft. Both have had laptops stolen from employees that contained very critical data pertaining to hundreds of thousands of people, putting these innocent victims at risk for identity theft, credit card fraud and a slew of other dangers.
*”2006: The Year of the Stolen Laptop” – Forbes, September 7, 2006
*Boeing disclosed that files containing Social Security numbers, names and home addresses of 382,000 current and former employees were compromised when an unencrypted laptop was stolen from an employee’s car. – MSNBC, December 13, 2006
*The University of California, Berkeley, is warning more than 98,000 people that the theft of a laptop from its graduate school admissions office has exposed their personal information. Files on the laptop contained names, dates of birth, addresses and Social Security numbers of 98,369 graduate students or graduate-school applicants. The files go back three decades in some cases. – CNN, March 28, 2005
*Financial services giant Fidelity Investments confirmed that a laptop containing the personal information of almost 200,000 Hewlett-Packard employees was stolen from its property. – CNN, March 23, 2006
*Georgia-based Emory Healthcare reports that a laptop containing information on 38,000 of its patients was stolen. The missing laptop contained information on patients who had been treated for cancer at Emory Hospital, Emory Crawford Long Hospital, and Grady Memorial Hospital. The data included names, addresses and Social Security numbers.
The theft of patients’ medical records is a growing concern, particularly as these records can be used to engage in “medical identity theft”. Thieves can use stolen identities not only to obtain credit and loans, but to get expensive medical procedures that they might not have otherwise been able to afford, running up thousands in debt in the process.
Patients who have been hit with medical identity theft can find their insurance premiums skyrocketing, and can face large medical bills for procedures they never had. – ConsumerAffairs.com, January 8, 2006

Without a doubt laptop theft is a real concern, but you can minimise the risk by using one of the secure laptop bags with built-in anti-theft features that are available from Pacsafe. They have models available for both men and women, if you are concerned about the risk of your laptop being stolen then take a look at the MetroSafe 300 Secure Laptop Case.

Reno Web Design Firms

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In today’s time-crunched world, most people literally don’t have a minute to spare. This hurried pace extends to the realm of website design — your professional Web design must satisfy the demands of users with a wide range of options for viewing the Web.
Even if you create a website design that’s worth a wait, visitors faced with slow download speed aren’t likely to stick around. So how can you make sure that time is on your side? Pay close attention to seven professional Web design tips to create a website that won’t slow your business down.
Clean up your code
While HTML text is much faster than graphic text, there are ways you can make it even faster. Watch out for extraneous HTML coding like spaces, unnecessary tags and even white space — that can increase the size of your files. Remember that less is more, and use defaults for tags or remove them wherever possible.
Compress your images
Images are a great example of how looks can be deceiving in professional Web design. You might not realize just how much space they occupy when you create a website design. By compressing your images before adding them to your professional Web design, you can reduce/shrink a GIF or .JPEG image by up to half its original size. You may also want to specify the height and weight of your images in your HTML, which can decrease loading time.
Pay attention to page size
Even if you use all of the tips above, your page size may still be big enough to cause a slow response when all the pieces of your website are put together. Remember that less is often more in professional Web design, and use only the content that is absolutely necessary. Ideal page size is around 30KB.
Use thumbnails
Thumbnails are an especially helpful website design technique for ecommerce websites. Provide customers with a small, fast-loading image of your product and let them decide whether they want to view the larger version of the image.
Limit use of flash
Flash is a classic example of style over substance and, while it definitely has its place in professional Web design, it must be used sparingly when you create a website. Even if your visitors have the right flash player (and many won’t), it will increase your site’s download time. Flash is also one of the Web site design elements that is not yet accessible to search engines, which means it can only hinder your search engine optimization efforts.
Reduce server requests
Any element of your design that loads from a different server whether it be a graphic, an audio clip, or an ad will elicit an HTTP request each time the page loads. Create a website with limited external content to reduce loading time.
Switch to CSS
Many Web designers now use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) instead of the more traditional table layout. CSS is a styling language that has a dual purpose in professional Web design: it can save you time when you create a website and save your visitors time by drastically reducing page size and download time.
When you create a website design for your business, go the extra mile to ensure your website has the speed your visitors need — or risk getting passed by.