Posts Tagged web design

SuzanneTop Mistakes That Turn Website Design Worthless

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

A website design means to attract and involve online users and finally give them good reasons to purchase the products and services available on the websites. A badly designed websites fails to achieve the above-mentioned goals for a business website.

Reason behind the bad web design is the selection of an inexperienced website design company. A good web design and website development company takes care of things that turn a website design bad. Some of the common mistakes that lead to useless website design, but taken care of by an expert website design.

Distracting Backgrounds-
Backgrounds are meant the professional backdrop to a website that can attract the online users and involve them. A bad website design has background that distracts or displeases the visitors and makes the text difficult to read. Moreover, the images used a backgrounds make the websites difficult to load.

Inappropriate Text Style-
For the visitors, the information displayed on a website is the best medium to know about it. A badly designed website has font too small or too big to read out. Underlines and bolded paragraphs and use of italics too frequently too make the website design bad.

Use of Animations-
Animations are not meant to be used excessively in a website design. These blinking text and animations often steal the efficacy of a website. And an expert web design company makes less use of such features so that a website has professional look and feel.

Interrupting Music-
Most disastrous aspects of a website design is the ‘Background Music’. The automatic music played in loops and on every web page is definitely a part of the bad web design. It reduces the interest of online users in your website.

No HTML Validation-
HTML validation is an important thing to do with a website design. It needs proper validation as without it, your website has fewer chances to get indexed in the search engine results. Moreover, such websites have slow loading pages.

Opening New Windows

Non-Alignment of Different Elements

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NaggieHow to Make an Image Map

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

An image map is a picture in which areas within the picture are links. Creating an image involves using the <img alt=”" />,<map>, and <area /> tags. </map>

Steps to creating an image map-

  • Select the image on which you would like to make multiple links. Click on the rectangular hotspot tool found in the Properties Inspector. Select the rectangle tool and drag the pointer over the image to create a rectangular hotspot. You can also choose the oval or polygon hotspot tool to make an oval or polygon selection.
  • In the hotspot Property inspector’s Link field, click the folder icon to browse to the file you want opened when the hotspot is clicked. Alternatively, type the file name.
  • Repeat the above steps to define additional hotspots in the image map.
  • That’s it! You have now successfully created an image map.

For example-

<div>
<map name=”map1″>
<area title=”Contacts” shape=”RECT” coords=”6,116,97,184″ href=”contacts.html” alt=”Contacts” />
<area title=”Products” shape=”CIRCLE” coords=”251,143,47″ href=”products.html” alt=”Products” />
<area title=”New!” shape=”POLY” coords=”150,217, 190,257, 150,297,110,257″ href=”new.html” alt=”New!” />
</map>
<img usemap=”#map1″ src=”testmap.gif” border=”0″ alt=”map of GH site” width=”300″ height=”300″ />
[ <a href="contacts.html">Contacts</a> ]
[ <a href="products.html">Products</a> ]
[ <a href="new.html">New!</a> ]</div>

<DIV ALIGN=CENTER>

<MAP NAME=”map1″>

<AREA

HREF=”contacts.html” ALT=”Contacts” TITLE=”Contacts”

SHAPE=RECT COORDS=”6,116,97,184″>

<AREA

HREF=”products.html” ALT=”Products” TITLE=”Products”

SHAPE=CIRCLE COORDS=”251,143,47″>

<AREA

HREF=”new.html” ALT=”New!” TITLE=”New!”

SHAPE=POLY COORDS=”150,217, 190,257, 150,297,110,257″>

</MAP>

<IMG SRC=”testmap.gif”

ALT=”map of GH site” BORDER=0 WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=300

USEMAP=”#map1″><BR>

[ <A HREF="contacts.html" ALT="Contacts">Contacts</A> ]

[ <A HREF="products.html" ALT="Products">Products</A> ]

[ <A HREF="new.html"      ALT="New!">New!</A> ]

</DIV>

Using this, you can create an image map.

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NaggieZero-day hack of Oracle 11g database revealed

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

On Tuesday, a well-known security researcher showed how to subvert security in the Oracle 11g database by exploding zero-day vulnerabilities that would let a savvy user gain full and complete control.

David Litchfield, a researcher at NGS Consulting, demonstrated how a user can subvert security to elevate his privileges to take complete control over Oracle 11g. Altogether Litchfield announced this was his final day at NGS, saying he was considering changing his focus to computer forensics.

Researcher claims hack of processor used to secure Xbox 360, other products

Currently reported, Litchfield’s discovery shows that due to the way Java has been implemented in Oracle 11g Release 2, there’s an overly permissive default grant that makes it possible for a low privileged user to grant him arbitrary permissions. In a demo of Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition, he showed how to execute commands that led to the user granting himself system privileges to have “complete control over the database.” Litchfield also showed how it’s possible to bypass Oracle Label Security used for managing mandatory access to information at different security levels.

Until Oracle remedies the zero-day flaws he exposed, Litchfield advised Oracle 11g administrators to revoke public execute access to certain Java-based functions. He said he expects Oracle to soon release patches for the problems he identified and he intends to publish a white paper on the topic.

According to Litchfield, he thinks Oracle probably deserves a “B+” for security in the current version of its database, which he characterized as an improvement over the previous version, but criticized Oracle for not finding these problems in the requirements and design phases of the product. He added Oracle appears to be relying too much on security tools to catch problems after its product is shipped.

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NaggieReport: Google to Open App Store for Business Software

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Google may open as early as March an online store to sell third-party software that complements its Google Apps collaboration and communication hosted suite.

According to the Journal, whose article was based on anonymous sources, Google would let customers purchase the software from its store and charge the third-party developers a commission.

Though Google’s spokeswoman declined top comment on the Journal article, but she pointed out that Google already has a site called Solutions Marketplace where it features applications and professional services from third-party developers that complement Google Apps and other Google enterprise products.

However, Solutions Marketplace doesn’t have e-commerce capabilities, meaning that customers interested in purchasing the products and services have to contact the vendors by going to their Web sites or calling them on the phone. The Google Solutions Marketplace is an information resource and portal for customers to connect with third-party vendors, according to the spokeswoman.

For the Solutions Marketplace, it would seem a natural extension to gain e-commerce transaction capabilities, an area in which Google has ample experience with products such as Google Checkout, the s elf-serve ad-selling system of Google AdWords, the Android Market and Google Apps itself, for which users can sign up online. Thus, the app store could be more an evolution of the existing Solutions Marketplace site than an entirely new site built from scratch.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has singled out the company’s IT products for business as one of several attractive businesses to complement its core online search ad business.

.Google Apps comes in several versions, including the most sophisticated one, Apps Premier, which costs US$50 per user per year and is geared toward medium and large businesses. However, most Apps customers are individuals and small businesses that use the free Standard version. The free Education edition for schools and universities is also popular.

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