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Website design Checklist

Planning for a website design? Planning is important for any size of website, whether it’s a 3 page or 50 page website. When building a house, it’s important to have a good plan before beginning any work. In the same way, the planning ahead is important for website design too. A successful website begins with a good plan. Below here is the important checklist for your website design.

Logo: Should be simple and easily recognizable. Click here for the logo design tips and examples.
Domain Name: Domain name is an important part of the overall website design. A name plays an important role when people navigate to your website. It should be easy to spell, pronounce, catchy and memorable.
Content: Plan the content for each page including text, images and etc., that will appeal to your readers. Provide value in every page so that your readers will stick to it.
Images: As much as the attention given to content, so it should be for images on your website. Images should speak clear about your work web site.
Responsiveness: These days everyone opts for responsiveness. The layout of your website automatically adapts to the size of screen, to fit the various mobile device by giving the best display, which is easy to read and find for the customer.
SEO Optimization: Optimize page titles, descriptions, image alt tags, keywords and URL’s. Use best key words to target to drive traffic from search engines to your website.

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Mobile-Ready “Purchases on Google” from mobile search ads

Google is introducing a Mobile-Ready, new feature, called “Purchases on Google” for shoppers to buy products directly from mobile search ads.

By tapping on a button which is included in the mobile search ads, shoppers will be able to buy the advertised product. This means you will see a “buy” button in the promoted mobile search results, directing you to a page where you can buy the advertised product.

The “buy” button unveiled is part of Google’s attempt to make it easier for people to shop on their mobile devices and divert traffic from online sellers like Amazon, eBay & etc.

The feature, called “Purchases on Google”, completes sales using financial information that already has been stored with Google. This will reduce the friction in mobile purchases without interfering in the relationship between merchants and consumers. The purchase page will carry the merchant’s branding, and will search for other products if the shoppers couldn’t find the exact products they are looking for.

Initially, Google is testing this feature with about dozen retailers and is having plans to increase the retailers before the end of this year. At a press event in New York City, Google said that it has plans to then make this more broadly available to advertisers in the United States, and “much more scale” throughout the United States by late 2015 or early 2016.

Mobile Responsive Web Design is without a doubt the way of the future, it really simplifies sites to make them more user-friendly. Is your site mobile-ready? Are your ads ready for mobile-ready to reach the mobile users?DMG Weblabs is specialized in creating mobile-ready websites.

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Sources: cp24, techcrunch

Is your website friendly to mobile users?

Is your website mobile-responsive to mobile users? Do you know how many people use the web using their hand-held devices such as smartphones, tablets, even on the go?

Having website to Mobile Responsive is very important because nowadays users don’t use just computers and laptops to browse the internet. Mobile_Friendly_Tornoto_Webdesign_Company

The normal websites are also view-able on hand-held devices but they are not fit to the hand-held device’s dimensions. The user has to tap, zoom and to scroll sideways to view all the content. This will be frustrating experience for all the mobile searchers. All it is because the normal website has not been optimized to be viewed on hand-held devices.

As users become increasingly mobile users, Mobile Responsive Web Design Websites has become an important aspect to consider when developing websites and optimizing user experience.

Very recently, Google also changed it’s algorithm criteria so that the mobile-friendly websites will be first in search for mobile searchers to their hand-held devices to make the web better. If you observe in the recent searchings on your hand-held devices, you are seeing the labels “mobile-friendly” before every link to mobile search results.

So is your website ready to be found in the mobile search results as well? Is your website friendly to the mobile users?

Mobile Responsive Web Design Website is without a doubt the way of the future, it really simplifies sites to make them more user-friendly.

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Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/

Is your site Mobile-Friendly?

Is your site Mobile-Friendly? This is what the Google is looking for. I just want to re-post this topic, which was posted last year as a reminder to check if your site is Mobile-Friendly.

The new Google algorithm that launched a couple of weeks ago, is revolutionizing the way that mobile search results will give preference to mobile ready websites over non-mobile ready websites.

The mobile device searches are increasing day-by-day, as it’s very easy to find and buy products, buy vacation tickets, book hotels and so many online activities, just while on the go. Mobile_Friendly

So, the Google is favoring the mobile search by boosting the ranking of mobile-friendly pages on mobile search results as now searchers can more easily find high quality and relevant results, where text is readable without tapping or zooming, tap targets are spaced appropriately, and the page avoids unplayable content or horizontal scrolling, according to Official Google Webmaster Central Blog.

With the mobile search growing faster than the desktop, businesses that don’t have mobile ready sites are losing their rankings and traffic. More than 40% of Fortune 500 companies’ websites are not mobile-friendly, which will have a big impact with the new Google’s algorithm.

Our website, DMG Weblabs is mobile-friendly. Is your site mobile-friendly, if not, it’s time to think.

Check if your site is mobile-friendly with the Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test.

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Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca

Tips to Choose a Right Tablet

Now-a-days as the trend is going on to buy tablets, you should know which tablet is right for you and what you should know. Here are some tips for you to choose from Apple IPads, Android Tablets & Windows model.
The operating system on the iPad Air and iPad mini tablet lines is very clean and intuitive, and the wide selection of iPad apps that you can buy right on your tablet. This is the greatest strength of Apple’s iOS.

Google’s Android mobile OS gives you a choice of hardware from several manufacturers and offers maximum configurability, a top-notch notification system, fast and smooth Web browsing, and seamless integration with Google applications like Gmail, Google Maps, and Hangouts for video chat. Android also includes support for multiple user logins so you can share your tablet with a friend or family member.

Windows 8 comes the closest to offering a traditional computing experience with full x86 support for all of your Windows software. And you can run the full version of Microsoft Office when you buy a Win 8 tablet. Also, connectivity options and hardware add-ons for Windows models are also typically more plentiful than with other tablet types.

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Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/

A Glossary of a hacker’s dictionary

++++Term++++	+++++++++++++++++Definition
Advanced persistent threat (APT):	A strategic cyber attack that infiltrates a system and persists over a prolonged period of time, potentially undetected. APTs may be carried out by a nation state or criminal organization to steal sensitive data or compromise a target system.
Botnet:	A large network of virus-infected computers that can be used to generate spam, spread viruses, perpetrate click fraud or conduct attacks on other systems.
Bug bounty program:	A program where software companies offer cash rewards to hackers to find and report exploitable vulnerabilities before they can be used by cyber criminals. Facebook, Google, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft have been known to offer thousands of dollars in return for bugs.
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack:	An attack designed to disrupt a computer system or website service by bombarding the site with so much web traffic that it crashes. Botnets are often used to carry out DDoS assaults.
Ransomware:	Malicious software designed to block access to a system or account until a sum of money is paid.
Social engineering:	Non-computer methods of manipulation to obtain sensitive personal information, such as birth dates, or social security numbers. Personal knowledge often used to bypass passwords.
Special phishing:	An email masquerading as being from a trusted source or person you know sent with the goal of obtaining sensitive information, often by downloading data-sniffing and computer-controlling malicious software.
Zero-day exploit:	A previously undetected software vulnerability that is used to hack into affected system before developers or manufacturers can address or fix the problem.

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Source: The Globe and Mail

Twelve big hacks

Some of the largest hacks in history, by records exposed :

#	Name	Hacks	+++++++++++++++++Expose
1	NYC Taxi & Limousine	173 million	Hack exploits poorly anonymized trip details and personal information of drivers
2	Adobe Systems	152 million	Hack of company systems exposes informations related to customer orders
3	Shanghai Roadway	150 million	Firm may have illegally bought and sold customers’ information
4	eBay	145 million	Hack exposes names, encrypted password and personal information
5	Unknown South Korean Firms	140 million	North Korean hackers expose e-mail addresses and identification numbers
6	Heartland	130 million	Hack/malicious software exposes credit cards at processor
7	Target	110 million	Hack exposes customer information by targeting point-of-sale systems
8	Korea Credit Bureau	104 million	Insider fraud exposes 104 million credit cards
9	TJX	94 million	Hack exposes credit cards and transaction details
10	TRW	90 million	Hack exposes credit-reporting database
11	JPMorgan	83 million	Hack exposes names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mails of the holders of household and small business accounts
12	Home Depot	56 million	Hackers use malware to steal debit and credit card data from point-of-sale systems

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Source: The Globe and Mail

Facebook creates ‘Safety Check’ tool for disasters

A tool that push users notify friends and family that they are safe during or after natural disasters like Tsunami & Earthquake, is launched by Facebook.

The tool, called ‘Safety Check’, which includes the basic “feature” phones many people still use to access Facebook, will be available worldwide to the social network’s users on computers and mobile devices, especially in developing countries.

Though the people already use Facebook to tell people they are “OK” after earthquakes and other disasters, the Facebook’s Safety Check tool will make it easier. This tool was created in 2011 by Facebook engineers following the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan as a disaster message board.

Once users activate the tool, it will determine their location using the city they have listed in their profile, the last location they’ve shared or the city where they are using the internet. If they are in an area affected by a natural disaster, Safety Check will send them a notification asking if they’re safe.

If they say yes, their Facebook friends will be notified. There’s no option to say no. Users can also mark their friends as safe, but the friends have to approve it.

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Source: “http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/44834579.cms?intenttarget=no”

Ex-Googlers launch an app to make people talk

An app called Cord, developed by two former Google employees, Thomas Gayno and Jeff Baxter, is hoping to let people quickly record and send their brief voice messages lasting no more than 12 seconds to one or several people at the same time with just a single tap.

“Over the past decade, people are speaking to each other less and less,” Gayno told AFP.

“Increasingly they communicate by text — either by SMS, email or instant messaging. We want to tackle that and get people speaking to each other again.”

To transmit the voice with Cord, users will simply tap on the face of a visible contact placed in a circle, pressing once to listen to a message or to respond without the requirement of any number or text.

This voice enabled app will certainly play a key role in controlling new devices, from smartphones to wearables and other connected objects, as said by Thomas Husson, an analyst with Forrester Research. “However, I doubt that a service based on the promise of voice-services alone can scale – it will have to embedded among other features in an open way to control new devices.”

The two Google Veterans are hoping that this innovative new app will trigger a renaissance in an increasingly unfashionable method of human communication: talking.

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Source: “http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Ex-Googlers-launch-an-app-to-make-people-talk/articleshow/44500960.cms”

Bash Bug – A New Virus

A new programming flaw known as “Bash Bug” is reported to give a serious threat to the IT world effecting millions of computers and other devices such as home internet routers and even the systems that are used to run factory floors and power plants.

The Bash Bug also known as “Shellshock”, affects a system software called Bash, which is found on a variety of Unix-based systems, potentially allows hackers to take control of a victim’s computer and run almost any operation, from opening, altering and deleting files to shutting down networks and launching attacks on websites.

Bash is found on Unix-based devices that are running the Linux and Mac OS X operating systems. Devices that use Unix in some form include many servers, routers, Android phones, Mac computers, medical devices and even the computers that create bitcoins. Systems running power plants and municipal water systems could also be affected by the bug, though security experts already recommend that these systems remain disconnected from the internet to avoid opening them to such risks.
Bash is a command shell which “tells the computer to do of what you want do”. Thus, the bug in Bash allows the hackers to take control over a victim’s device.

Thus, Bash is believed to be worse than “Heartbleed, which expose passwords and other sensitive data to hackers”.

As we wait for the development of a fix to this bug, it will be always helpful to run up-to-date security software on your devices.

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Source: “http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/computing/What-is-Bash-Bug-and-should-you-be-worried/articleshow/43501380.cms”, http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bash-bug-aka-shellshock-has-no-easy-fix-1.2779383