What is Web Design?

Websites have a visual look and feel that plays an integral role in captivating the attention of those browsing them. Web design is the process of planning and incorporating various aesthetic and functional elements, which together can enhance the user experience of the website. So basically, a web designer is supposed to build ideal website elements, from fonts, and color, to graphics, content, images, structure, and layout.
Graphic design, interface design, user experience design, search engine optimization (SEO), and content production are all components of web design. They work together to produce the final user experience of a website. In addition, these aspects influence how a website appears feels, and functions across a variety of devices.

Why Good Web Design is so Important?

A well-formed and excellent website can make a brand, while, a messed up or obsolete website can hurt the brand. The overall look and effect of a website depend on the quality of web design. Sometimes small businesses with restricted specialized abilities or cost difficulties are skeptical about investing in a well-designed website for it can be an expensive affair. Also, they seem to ignore the importance of website redesign, if they already have one.
However, market studies suggest that good website architecture is of the most extreme significance for all. It is on the grounds that a decent web composition is something that affects and impacts clients, which thus brings about lead generation for the business. Having an ideal website today is one of the mainstays of having a competitive online presence.
Around 75% of the clients judge an organization’s believability because of their visual experience of the organization’s site. If they come across a poor-looking site, they are most likely to question the company’s legitimacy and the quality of the products and services on offer. Your website composition is of such high importance that it can either create good first impressions on the customers or drive them away.

What are the Characteristics of a Good Website?

Following are the characteristics that a great website must possess –

• Visual Appeal and Functionality:

Your website design is a way that allows your audience a peep into your company, products, service, and your brand image. The better the website design, the better your company message gets communicated. Your website should look polished, professional, and visual all at the same time. Also, your site should work quickly and correctly at all times. Every page should always be fast and functional, as broken or slow pages won’t leave a good impression on your visitors.

• Ease of Use:

When we are browsing online, we are in search of quick and easy information. In other words, your site visitors aren’t there to work for the information. Therefore, the website should have a clear hierarchy and logical and obvious navigation. Visitors should always be capable of finding required information without struggling even a bit.

• Browser Consistency:

Browser consistency or compatibility if neglected can have a negative effect on website usability. Therefore, make sure that your website behaves consistently across different browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera, Safari, and Firefox. This one is a simple yet extremely important characteristic of a good web design.

• Effective Use of the Negative Space:

Also known as the white space, the negative space on a web page is the unused space. Not necessarily white, but it can be of any color, any background, or can have any image. Some web designers make the mistake of overfilling this blank space, only to end up making web pages overly complex, colorful, and busy. Rather than doing so, web designers should learn ways to effectively use the negative space. Viewers find it difficult and annoying to be on web pages that have too much information and too little space. If negative space is used properly, it gives visitors ample time to absorb all information on the page.

• Accessibility for All:

Your website design should be such that it looks great and works well on all platforms. More and more people now use their mobile phones or tablets for accessing information online. If the website isn’t optimized for use on these devices, visitors would definitely find it annoying and probably decide to never visit your site again. Therefore, accessibility for all is another very important characteristic of a good website design.

• Quick Loading:

Loading time of the web pages on your site is something that is directly related to good or bad user experience. If a web page takes more than two or three seconds to load, visitors tend to lose interest and even leave the site at once. That’s why the loading time should definitely be a priority while designing a website.

• Use of State-of-the-Art Technologies:

To make the user experience of your website amazing, you must ensure that your website has been designed to make use of the latest technologies and trends. If not, your website visitors and readers might get an obsolete feel and even turn away from visiting it again. On the contrary, a website backed by the latest and interesting trends and technologies helps keep visitors pinned and attracted.

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You can easily apply multiple id’s to a single css style using following format:

#id1, #id2, #ID3 {
width:100%;
float:left;
}

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<script type=”text/javascript”>
setTimeout(function(){window.location=”https://beta.netgen.work”;}, 3000) //wait three seconds before continuing.

Hope this helps you with your project/tasks.

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Twitter is quite a bit different than a place like Facebook or Myspace, as it is completely focused on the tweets that are sent out. It also features a very devoted fan-base.

Most people on Twitter are there to network, and it can be a very powerful way to share information about your business. Here are a few reasons why you should be using Twitter:

1)  Everyone Else is doing it: There are so many businesses using Twitter successfully. Don’t get left behind!

2)  Twitter is “Social Media”:  Your business needs to be participating in social media, and this is a fantastic way to do it.

3)  Twitter Users are Very Devoted:  When you send a tweet out to your list, you better believe people are going to see it.

4)  You can Communicate with your “Followers” for Free:  Whenever you want to get information out to your customers, typically you would need to spend money on sending a mailing through the post office. It doesn’t cost anything to send tweets out, and people receive them instantly!

5)  Twitter Allows You to Communicate Individually with your Customers: Twitter allows you to message all of your followers, but also gives you the ability to communicate directly with individual customers. This can give you valuable feedback as well as allows you to build relationships with them.

6)  Others Have Already Paved this Road: Chances are many other businesses like yours are already using Twitter successfully. You don’t need to stumble in the dark as you will have proven business models to follow.

There is no doubt about it, Twitter can help your business today!

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Backlinks are important because search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing, search for them to find new content and to also determine how to grade or rank your website. That brings us to the quality of your backlinks. Search engines look not only to the quantity of backlinks to your website from other websites (which they use to determine if you seem to be an authority on a topic), but they also look at the quality of those backlinks to judge the worthiness of your website. This second point is why it is important to build back links to sites which search engines deem reputable and high-standing. As I have often mentioned before, the basic principles that work in everyday life also work online. Poor quality backlinks shows the search engines that your website hangs out with the wrong crowd!

I would recommend the following sites to boost the quality of backlinks for your local business:

1. Directories relevant to your business niche and locality.
2. Social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Technorati, YouTube etc.
3. Professional Associations relevant to your business/industry and location.
4. Government Directories especially if you work as a supplier or contractor for federal contracts (ending with .gov).
5. Educational websites for alumni, fraternities, sororities etc (ending with .edu).
6. Non-profit sites if your business is involved in community projects (ending with .org).
7. Local community websites.
8. Influential Blogging sites related to your niche.
9. Business websites that complement yours. For example if you are a golf coach, you would link to businesses that sell golf clothing and equipment or to golf course sites.
10. Your clients websites, blogs and social media accounts.
11. Online newspapers, magazines, trade publications, professional journals related to your business and to your location.
12. Article Directories. Make sure you include an author resource box with your business website link.

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1. Create a Facebook fan-page -Invite friends, upload content, photos, videos etc
2. Have a Facebook icon link on your webpage
3. Create a YouTube account and upload videos. Have your business url included in description box and embedded in the video
4. Have a YouTube icon link on your webpage
5. Join Twitter-get social and keep your followers informed on special offers and events
6. Have a Twitter icon link on your webpage
7. Join your professional association in your local state and attend networking events. Give out your business card
8. Join online business directories that are relevant to your niche
9. Participate in online forums related to your niche
10. Write a 400 word article every day and submit it to an article directory
11. Write a compelling author resource box with your business URL link and use it in all your articles and forum postings
12. Write a report or e-book and offer it as a free gift to subscribers
13. Install RSS feeds to inform people on your new articles, blogs, tweets and web content
14. Engage in email marketing sending regular newsletters to your list
15. Use your email list to finance your purchases through “pre-order” sales
16. Engage in joint ventures with businesses offering complimentary services
17. Perform email list swaps with business associates
18. Advertise your website in your brick and mortar shop to your customers
19. Link your business website to similar businesses of quality reputation
20. Create a Google places business listing and optimize it
21. Insert Geo-tags or Google Map in your website
22. Invest in yourself by reading widely and improving your expert status in your niche
23. Sign up for free newsletters, webinars and other informative resources that will give you ideas and provide a platform for you to participate in discussions and forums.
24. Have excellent customer service responding quickly and politely to customers.
25. Post free ads on free ad websites like Craigslist.
26. Send free text messages from your email account to your customers’ cell phones promoting your business products and services.

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I have found this simple function with which we can simply convert time from different timezones.

function converToTz($time="",$toTz='',$fromTz='')
	{	
		// timezone by php friendly values
		$date = new DateTime($time, new DateTimeZone($fromTz));
		$date->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone($toTz));
		$time= $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
		return $time;
	}

we will use this function first to convert user time and then checking the time for users timezone. Check for supported timezones by php datetime function Supported Timezones in PHP
E.g

$time="2012-01-23 10:30:00"; // User selected time to get email.
$timezone="Asia/Kolkata";     
$save_time2database=convertToTz($time,'UTC',date('e')); // Convert time from server time to UTC
mysql_query('insert into users set time="'.$save_time2database.'", timezone="'.$timezone.'"'); // and save this time to database


// Check time for sending email for user.
$userTime="2012-01-23 05:00:00";  // Data saved for user in UTC format
$userTimezone="Asia/Kolkata";      // User timezone
$userConvertedTime=convertToTz($userTime,$userTimezone,'UTC');
if(date('Y-m-d H:i:s')==$userConvertedTime)
{
mail('admin@digital6technologies.com','Time to Launch');
}

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This access was accomplished via third-party software installed on the Drupal.org server infrastructure, and was not the result of a vulnerability within Drupal itself. This notice applies specifically to user account data stored on Drupal.org and groups.drupal.org, and not to sites running Drupal generally.

Information exposed includes usernames, email addresses, and country information, as well as hashed passwords. However, we are still investigating the incident and may learn about other types of information compromised, in which case we will notify you accordingly. As a precautionary measure, we are asking all users to reset their passwords at their next login attempt. A user password can be changed at any time by taking the following steps.

• Go to https://drupal.org/user/password
• Enter your username or email address.
• Check your email and follow the link to enter a new password.
• It can take up to 15 minutes for the password reset email to arrive. If you do not receive the e-mail within 15 minutes, make sure to check your spam folder as well.

All passwords on Drupal.org are stored in an hashed format. All Drupal.org passwords are both hashed and salted, although some older passwords on groups.drupal.org and other Drupal 6 sites were not salted.

See below recommendations on additional measure that you can take to protect your personal information.

What happened?

Malicious files were placed on association.drupal.org servers via a third-party application used by that site. Upon discovering the files during a security audit, we shut down the association.drupal.org website to mitigate any possible ongoing security issues related to the files. The Drupal Security Team then began forensic evaluations and discovered that user account information had been accessed via this vulnerability.

The suspicious files may have exposed profile information like username, email address, hashed password, and country. In addition to resetting your password on Drupal.org, we are also recommending a number of measures (below) for further protection of your information, including, among others, changing or resetting passwords on other sites where you may use similar passwords.

What are we doing about it?

We take security very seriously on Drupal.org. As attacks on high-profile sites (regardless of the software they are running) are common, we strive to continuously improve the security of all Drupal.org sites.

To that end, we have taken the following steps to secure the Drupal.org infrastructure:

• Staff at the OSU Open Source Lab (where Drupal.org is hosted) and the Drupal.org infrastructure teams rebuilt production, staging, and development webheads and GRSEC secure kernels were added to most servers
• We are scanning and have not found any additional malicious or dangerous files and we are making scanning a routine job in our process
• There are many subsites on Drupal.org including older sites for specific events. We created static archives of those sites.

We would also like to acknowledge that we are conducting an investigation into the incident, and we may not be able to immediately answer all of the questions you may have. However, we are committed to transparency and will report to the community once we have an investigation report.

If you find that any reason to believe that your information has been accessed by someone other than yourself, please contact the Drupal Association immediately by sending an email to password@association.drupal.org. We regret this occurred and want to assure you we are working hard to improve security.

Thank you,
Holly Ross
Drupal Association Executive Director

FAQ

What happened?

The Drupal.org Security Team and Infrastructure Team has identified unauthorized access to user information on Drupal.org and groups.drupal.org, which occured via third-party software installed on the Drupal.org server infrastructure.

What information of mine was exposed?

The information includes username, email address, hashed passwords, and country for some users. However, we are still investigating the incident and may learn about other types of information compromised, in which case we will notify you accordingly.

Was my credit card information exposed?

We do not store credit card information on our site and have uncovered no evidence that card numbers may have been intercepted. However, we are still investigating the incident and may learn about other types of information compromised, in which case we will notify you accordingly.

Were projects or hosted drupal.org code altered?

We have no evidence to suggest that an unauthorized user modified Drupal core or any contributed projects or packages on Drupal.org. Software distributed on Drupal.org is open source and bundled from publicly accessible repositories with log histories and access controls.

Does this affect my own Drupal site?

This notice applies specifically to user account data stored on Drupal.org and groups.drupal.org, and not to sites running Drupal generally. However, we recommend that you follow best practices and follow any security notices from Drupal.org or third party integrations to keep your site safe. Resources include the following sites:

https://drupal.org/security
https://drupal.org/writing-secure-code
https://drupal.org/security/secure-configuration

How did the access happen?

Unauthorized access was made via third-party software installed on the Drupal.org server infrastructure, and was not the result of a vulnerability within Drupal itself. We are still investigating and will share more detail when it is appropriate.

What has been done to prevent this type of unauthorized access in the future?

There have been several infrastructure and application changes including:

• Open Source Lab, the group that hosts the servers for Drupal and infrastructure teams rebuilt production, staging, and development webheads
• GRSEC secure kernels were added to most servers
• An anti-virus scanner was run over file servers, and run routinely to detect malicious files being uploaded to the Drupal.org servers.
• We hardened our Apache web server configurations
• We made static archives of any site that has been end-of-lifed and will not be updated in the future
• Sites that were no longer going to receive feature or content updates were converted to static copies to minimize maintenance.
• We removed old passwords on sub-sites and non-production installations

Do you have any information about the identity of the person or group who did this?

At this point there is no information to share.

What is the security team doing to investigate the unauthorized access?

We have a forensics team made up of both Drupal Association staff and trusted community volunteers who are security experts working on the issue around the clock.

How is my Drupal.org password protected?

Passwords on Drupal.org are stored in a hashed format. Currently, passwords are both hashed and salted using multiple rounds of hashing (based on PHPass). Passwords on some subsites were not salted.

Who maintains the Drupal.org site?

The Drupal Association is responsible for maintaining the site, with the assistance of many trusted Drupal community volunteers.

What else can I do to protect myself?

First, we recommend as a precaution that you change or reset passwords on other sites where you may use similar passwords, even though all passwords on Drupal.org are salted and hashed. All Drupal.org passwords are both hashed and salted, although some older passwords on groups.drupal.org were not salted. To make your password more secure:

• Do not use passwords that are simple words or phrases
• Never use the same password on multiple sites or services
• Use different types of characters in your password (uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols).

Second, be cautious if you receive e-mails asking for your personal information and be on the lookout for unwanted spam. It is not our practice to request personal information by e-mail. Also, beware of emails that threaten to close your account if you do not take the “immediate action” of providing personal information.

Although we do not store credit card information, as a precaution we recommend you closely monitor your financial accounts if you made a transaction on association.drupal.org or if you use a password with your fianancial institution that is similar to your Drupal.org password. If you see unauthorized activity (in the U.S.), we also suggest that you submit a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) by calling 1-877-ID-THEFT (1-877-438-4338) or online at http://ftccomplaintassistant.com. Complaints filed with the FTC will be added to the FTC’s Identity Theft Data Clearinghouse, which is a database made available to law enforcement agencies.

Based on the results of the investigation into this incident, we may update the FAQs and may recommend additional measures for protecting your personal information.

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Please note: Always take backup of all files before making any changes so you can easily revert back if anyting gets broken.

Step 1:- Search for the correct file to modify.
In earlier versions(vtiger 5.2, Vtiger 5.4) template files were placed under
yoursite.com/vtiger-directory/smarty/templates/Login.tpl
but now they have updated folder structure and in new version of Vtiger 6 the files are located under
yoursite.com/vtiger-directory/layouts/vlayout/skins/users/Login.tpl

Step 2:- Change logo.
In new version of Vtiger logo for login page is used from following path. You can simply remove old logo file and upload new logo image and rename it to be “logo.png”
Login page Logo path:-
yourdomain.com/vtiger-directory/layouts/vlayout/skins/images/logo.png

Step 3:- Remove slider on left side of login page on Vtiger
Open Login.tpl in your favourite text-editor.
Remove following div along with other contents inside it.

<div class="carousal-container">
<div><h2> Get more out of Vtiger </h2></div>
<ul class="bxslider">
<li>
<div id="slide01" class="slide">
<img class="pull-left" src="{vimage_path('android_text.png')}">
<img class="pull-right" src="{vimage_path('android.png')}"/>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<div id="slide02" class="slide">
<img class="pull-left" src="{vimage_path('iphone_text.png')}"/>
<img class="pull-right" src="{vimage_path('iphone.png')}"/>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<div id="slide03" class="slide">
<img class="pull-left" src="{vimage_path('ipad_text.png')}"/>
<img class="pull-right" src="{vimage_path('ipad.png')}"/>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<div id="slide04" class="slide">
<img class="pull-left" src="{vimage_path('exchange_conn_text.png')}"/>
<img class="pull-right" src="{vimage_path('exchange_conn.png')}"/>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<div id="slide05" class="slide">
<img class="pull-left" src="{vimage_path('outlook_text.png')}"/>
<img class="pull-right" src="{vimage_path('outlook.png')}"/>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>


Step 4:- Change/remove social links at bottom.
You can either completely remove or just change the social links to your own links.
Change following code for it.

<div class="pull-right footer-icons">
<small>{vtranslate('LBL_CONNECT_WITH_US', $MODULE)}&nbsp;</small>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/vtiger"><img src="layouts/vlayout/skins/images/facebook.png"></a>
&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/vtigercrm"><img src="layouts/vlayout/skins/images/twitter.png"></a>
&nbsp;<a href="#"><img src="layouts/vlayout/skins/images/linkedin.png"></a>
&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/vtigercrm"><img src="layouts/vlayout/skins/images/youtube.png"></a>
</div>


Step 5:- Change text links in header and footer of Vtiger login page.
You can change the links or remove them completely.
Mofidy following code for this step.
In Header

<div class="helpLinks">
<a href="https://www.vtiger.com">Vtiger Website</a> |
<a href="https://wiki.vtiger.com/vtiger6/">Vtiger Wiki</a> |
<a href="https://www.vtiger.com/crm/videos/">Vtiger videos </a> |
<a href="https://discussions.vtiger.com/">Vtiger Forums</a>
</div>

Change links in footer

<div class="footer-content">
<small>&#169 2004-{date('Y')}&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.vtiger.com"> vtiger.com</a> |
<a href="javascript:mypopup();">Read License</a> |
<a href="https://www.vtiger.com/products/crm/privacy_policy.html">Privacy Policy</a> </small>
</div>

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