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Nothing upsets a web host administrator than having to deal with security problems on its content management system for its clients.  Content is always a major target for cyberspace hackers. This becomes a real headache when content contains sensitive data like credit card or social security numbers. 

Enter Secure Live. It’s a mix of software tools with real-time monitoring facility that can make life easy for securing content-rich websites you are hosting. Though aimed at securing Joomla websites, Secure Live also offers modules for open source based applications.  This is not an all-inclusive security package and is expensive besides.  But with what it offers, it is sure to be worth every penny.

The wisdom hasn’t eluded big businesses with millions of dollars exchanging hands when creative agencies design brand logos for various large companies. From airlines to apparels, designing the right logo has always merited special budget allocation.  And so should small businesses online.  Certainly not in the same magnitude as what California-based Landor and Associates might ask, but the point is, to allot sufficient time, resources and brain power to get your business or brand logos right. 

Make your logos unique, simple and memorable.  Everyone knows the Nike logo or the GAP logo.  Nothing extraordinary, but they bring memorable imagery to latch on the product.  That means letting the consumer get a handle on the logo to mean only one thing – your product. 
Like when you see a Nike logo, even without the name, you know right away it’s a Nike.  Online logos are actually easier to execute as a simple graphics tool will do.  The key is spending the time, effort and some bucks to get to it done right, preferably with a professional logo designer.

If you are starting out to design and develop your own website, apart from knowing HTML or just use those designing tools that make composing web pages a non-programming effort, you need a good graphics editing tool to spice up your design. 

While there are free ready-made graphics you can download, as well as hosting sites that offer some graphics rendering tools to customize a template web design, nothing beats designing your own graphics.

I’ve used a lot, starting with JASC Paint Shop Pro in the early days and finally settled to Adobe Photoshop.  Even their older version is just fine and a bargain these days.  If there’s one tool a web designer can’t do without, it’s a graphics editing tool.  And Photoshop is a favourite among designers out there.  What’s your favourite?