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You are really your web site can not Here are some important tips for you to remember and some questions to ask your website design and development of society. If you do not understand the 'ownership' issues when you buy a website or web-based which is to read to you! Do not pay twice caught. I recently launched a new interview with clients, was in search of the functionality of a database for their existing Web site. Your current webmaster had a logo and designed the interface for the site. Customers have the webmaster for a quote for the operation of the site, and has a price that is far beyond the customers? Budget. Long story short, we find a great demand that already exists, the client? Need for significantly less than their own development. The client, the former webmaster, that relocation of services. Do you think they did their original site? Nope. We had to start over, which unfortunately meant that the customer had to pay extra for design-time which in fact already paid. Here are some important tips for you to remember and some questions to ask your website design and development of society. Web Design source code, if you hire a web designer or a developer to go to a website or web-based application that your company depends. In fact, a Web application allows the entire company. This is absolutely the case in which a company is 100% online and depends on the process on its website. The operations of commerce are a perfect example of an online business. Web designers create Web pages, with a collection of images and Hyper-Text Markup Language (HTML). HTML is a text based language that most web designers in the world knows it. HTML code is what is used for the structure of your site together. He finds the beautiful text and images in the right places. Your browser interprets the HTML and displays the Web site of images and text. Your web designer is your project? Drawing? Your Web site in a graphics program. Macromedia Fireworks and Photoshop are two tools that are very often used by professionals. Your designer will be the site using shapes, colors, images and fonts, all in layers up to the last? "Look and Feel"? for your new website design. The designer will be part of the images and use the resulting thumbnails for your site with HTML, in order to read together. Here's the key. You need the original file, the art was for the design of the Web site of Macromedia Fireworks or Photoshop or any other software using your design. If not? T is the source file, the next web designers need to select the design from scratch, if you change the artwork. This is not a walk in the park, if the original images that were used are not available. Macromedia Fireworks files have the extension. PNG (yourWebsite.PNG). Photoshop file with a. PSD (yourWebsite.PSD). Another problem, the design, which can be run in future fonts. If you want to design fonts that are not installed by default on your computer or your future computer designers, you have to substitute different fonts. In some cases, the election of a new font is not a serious problem. However, if an image, the font used in the logo of Coca-Cola? was not available because Coke? amended designer most likely cause them real damage. You need the font used in their logo or brand and make it! Questions to ask your Web Designer 1) When you are finished, the design of my site you will find me with the source files used in the design of my new website? 2) She is the property (copyright) of the source files for me or my company? Or at least to me an unlimited number of licenses and change? 3) Do you want the file names and all the fonts in Windows are not used in the design of my new website? At least, as there may be genuine issues of copyright with the transfer of records, you need to know the names of fonts and where you can copy your project to the archive. Web Application Source Code Web developers to create programs known as applications on the Inteet. You can create code that has been completed, usually in real time, when the web server. The code is for example a connection to a database and extract a set of data. The data will then be in an HTML table (so that it is legible) and then from the Web server for the web browser as pure HTML. If you can not? Source? and read the script language, as have never been the web servers. If you? Source? Web browser, just the HTML code. Some of the code requires that your developers will be protected by copyright. Your developers can also purchase the code in the form of server components, blocks of code for the functionality of other programmers or purchase the complete application documents, to end the program. It is necessary to ensure that developers continue to use the software for the development for your company for an unlimited time, and that if there are licenses or applicants who are licensed to you, before starting the project. Find out whether you will always be tied to a hosting or server for your applications. Here are some questions you want to ask your web developer 1) You are an unlimited number of licenses for an indefinite period to me or my company to use the application you develop for me? 2) If you have all licenses to me in connection with the application? 3) Write the code using the common standards or languages in which I will be able to switch to another hosting provider or even to my server? 4) Can I send my application to another server in the future if necessary? Therefore, the use of encryption that your web developer says? Yes? the last four questions, and we think? great, I am free, I can start?. Then two years later, it is decided that the time to make your web application on your server, because your e-Commerce Store cry is occupied and the cost of bandwidth and hosting is killing your profits. You start the process for your application on the new server and go to your webmaster for assistance, but the university in the United States? Not? T, which does not do more?. You think to yourself? I think it would be a company? How to find a new webmaster. Incidentally, I am often told by new clients that I am the second, third and fourth sometimes also web developer. Then we go to the website, but to wait, what's wrong? Parts of the source code is encrypted. Even the govement? T decipher. We have a new version of these blocks of code and the customer must pay? again. If your web pages or HTML-source scripting language application is encrypted, and then must be rewritten or you do not have a way to add functionality or fix bugs without the original developer who holds the key for encryption. They are very intelligent, are not? T they? There are some good reasons to encrypt some parts of source code, even in a web application. Most web applications will be included in the source code, database, useame and password in a file. This is a good example of a code block to be encrypted before it is in a shared hosting environment. If your web developer is to encrypt the source code, make sure you have an unencrypted copy of the source code for the project archive. This way you can with a new developer. Questions to ask your web developer in connection with encryption 1) You are encrypting any or all of the source code for the application you develop for me? 2) Want to give me a copy of the original source code is encrypted before? Technologies There are a number of technologies for the development of websites and web applications, but also pre-Hypertext Processor (PHP), ASP (Active Server Pages), Active Sever Pages dot Net (ASP.NET) and Cold Fusion to name a few . All of these scripting languages to connect to databases and web sites to access the web server functions, such as e-mail or uploading files. All these technologies are widely used, widely available and there are a large number of developers who know these languages. There are some lesser-known scripting languages and programming, capable of doing many of the same things as widely used languages. The problem is that you may have a difficult time finding a programmer who knows the language. Some web scripting or programming languages such as Microsoft? S? Active Server Page or Active Server Page dot Net technologies are developed specifically for use on Microsoft operating systems. These technologies are difficult if not impossible, on a Linux operating system. If you choose a language programmers to develop web applications with you, can marry a long-term relationship with a particular operating system and software. This is fine, as long as you recognize the long-term impact of these decisions, some of which may lead to increased costs for you in the future. Questions to ask your web developer about programming languages 1) is the technology in a particular operating system or can I host my website on my choice of servers with my choice of operating system? More specifically, can host my application on a Microsoft web server and a Linux server? Transferability Make sure you are able to move the site on a server with comparable standards in the future if they wish. If you have a website to a new server is not necessarily through a break in the relationship with the web designer. You may be forced to pass, if your server is no longer possible with the traffic bandwidth. If the costs are too high in an environment of shared hosting may be cheaper to make your own web server and your application. If you decide to create their own application, where the incidence of the cost of previous choices, the Pocket Book. For example, if your site was built with PHP, a scripting language for open source web pages, then the cost of your new server is probably not software licenses, as the operating system (Linux) is free. If on the other hand, the site is in use. ASP o. ASP.NET, you have expensive server licenses from great man. You can use the site in the future? If you are a web designer or developer's commitment to a project for you, make an agreement in place, which clearly states that you continue to use the project and its source file, if it is complete. Check the service signed an agreement that you have with your web business. Of course, if there is no documentation, do not know if you website or web-based. In summary, there are some good reasons for web designers and developers to protect their rights and to ensure their potential for future eaings. As the purchaser or purchasers of services of web design is necessary to understand where you are in relation to decisions that are in his name to your Web site or Web-based. Subscribe to our newsletter * * Free Online-Call 1-866-WEBB-123? or e-mail info@ekzact.com? eKzact Solutions Inc. 2005