NGOs around the world have embraced technology to great lengths. Many of the best performing NGOs have employed a great information technology team to ensure that their systems are well monitored. A good website is a must have if you want any NGO to perform well. Some of the features that any NGO should consider having inn their website are:

Donate button: Since NGOs make money from donations, it is important to have a good donate sign. This sign should be placed I every page. It should direct people to the page where they are supposed to make a donation.

Easy navigation :The website should not be complex in nature. The way it is built should ensure faster navigation. This should be simple to allow anybody to reach to important pages fast

Social media integration: Social media buttons which are working are a must have in a good NGO website. This is because spreading the word or message about a website is easily done using social media

Analytics: For the web master, it is important for an analytics code to be put in every page. This will be an important key performance indicator (KPI) in getting data about the number of visitors who visited the website. Details to check mostly should be: devise used in visiting the website, location, demographic and time spent in the website.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO): A website for an NGO should be well optimized for the search engines. This should be done by inputting relevant values in the head, body and title sections of the website.
With all these, I know you are wondering about the price. A good designer should charge a reasonable amount of money to the NGO.

For instance, our company charges only $350 for a basic website for NGO.

Every month we are seeing more and more devices being used to access the internet. Its not just desktops and laptop computers any more. There has been a massive growth of usage off Smartphones such as the android, iPhone and the Windows phones. Tablets like the Ipad and Samsung tablet are also playing a key role.

Imagine you are late to dinner at a restaurant and you need their phone number.  When you visit their website on your smart phone, isn’t it great when you actually see that your website adapts to your device. You don’t need to pinch and zoom  your way around the web page, the navigation is easier to use and their phone number is easier to find. Well, this is great user experience and shows that the restaurant cares about their customers. Every business can learn from this.

The problem

So what does this mean for your website?  Well, you need to make sure that your website is easily viewable on these new devices. Users don’t want to always pinch and zoom around to view content. Here lies the problem where its not optimized for their device.

The Solution

Did you know that there was a solution to the problem which cost you your dream dress? Actually, the solution is pretty simple. The problem can be solved using one technique: Responsive Web Design (RWD).

Before I explain what RWD is, allow me to explain the fundamentals. Every month, we are seeing technology companies such as Apple, Samsung and Nokia launch various devices. These devices comes with  different screen sizes and resolutions.Computer manufacturing companies are also introducing new devices on a very frequent rate.

This means that, websites must designed in such a way that they are able to be viewed comfortably with all these devices.

Wait  a minute, Is my website responsive?

The truth of the matter is it is difficult to tell if a website is responsive by just looking at it in a laptop. Follow this procedure to check if your website is responsive or if it needs to be redesigned.

- Open your web browser

- Enter our website’s URL and press enter

- Once the website has loaded, press restore down

- Then try to minimize the website by pushing one side towards the other side

That’s all, if you are able to see all the content of your website, rest assured that its responsive. If not, please consider creating a responsive website design

Benefits of a Responsive Web Design -

Maintenance

It will be easier and cheaper to run one responsive website than to run two separate desktop and mobile websites.

Search engines

Google, Bing and all other major search engines have all commended and endorsed responsive websites which means that your sites will rank better.

Traffic

Your site will attract more visitors. Keep in mind that increase in visitors equals t more sales.

Competition

Responsive design is new so you have a very good chance t stay ahead of your competitors.

Future proof

Its much more adaptive to new devices which means that even if millions screen sizes are deviced, your website will always be ahead.

Mobile strategy

There has never been a better time to look at your mobile web structure. Companies that won’t do this will be left behind.

So embrace the web, embrace responsive web design

There were Rumors from last 2 years that Facebook will be launching a phone, as mentioned in an article by Techcrunch on Sunday, September 19th, 2010. Techcrunch mentioned that Facebook is building a phone secretly or may be building a software for a phone same like Apple did before. Previously other tch giants like Apple and Google taken the same step by launching iphone and Nexus respectively.

Finally Facebook is all set to launch their first phone and named it “Facebook First”. Facebook invited media at an event on Thursday at their headquarter in Menlo Park, Calid and simply named it “Come see our new home on Android.”

Come see our new home on Android

The device will be likely to be more on a web side rather than call side. The features will not be like in other Samsung galaxy phones or other android phones. It will be simply to give a user more social media experience.

Probable features of the phone will be -

• 4.32 inch screen

• 1GB RAM

• A 5 megapixel camera

• A custom android OS created only for this phone

One most probable feature will be that the users can call other users by skype calling, if the other user is not having facebook phone.

You can call it a mobile not for calling

HTC had a partnership with the company that some of previous versions of HTC like HTC Chacha had “Facebook button”, that took users directly to the social network. Although that phone was a unsuccessful one.

Some of the leaked pics of the phone can be seen here:

HTC Facebook Phone Leaked Pics

So are you waiting for that phone? What features you imagine in that phone? Let us know by comments.

I just started testing it and reading about it. Seems like a very interesting product of Google. According to that feature, you can search for something and then tip your nose on phone and SMELL that. The idea was to go beyond type, talk and touch, now its for senses. People can smell the searched term from phone.

The joke is over now. This was the best gag from Google till date. Google just April fooled his users by introducing a new feature and really most of the people trying it and thinking YES I CAN SMELL  A ROSE FROM MY PHONE. THANKS TO GOOGLE

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Infact Google prepared a introduction video too. Watch it here

Google has added another Prank to their APril fool prank list. Now they introduced a gmal blue. According to that, everything in gmail will be now BLUER, the compose button, reply, forward, mails everything will be blue. They says that it took them 6 years to develop this. In this time, they troied other colors too like orange, red etc. They created a introduction video to introduce this new feature. Check it out here -

Gmail Blue is the latest prank in this series. Let us know which is your favourite prank till date from Google.

The third one I found is visits from International Space Station – Control Room VISITORS. If you open your google analytics account and click REAL TIME VISITORS, you will find 41 visitors live on your website. Thats another prank in this list of Google Pranks. See the image below.

International Space Station – Control Room

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Now, how to design these call to action buttons in your wordpress website or wordpress blog? We dont want to hire a designer for this small job.
Wordpress has some awesome plugins that enables you to add call to action buttons easily in your wordpress website or blog.

1 – Drop Shadow Boxes: An awesome plugin created by Stevehenty. Drop Shadow Boxes plugin enables you to highlight the most important text or content of your blog posts, pages of site or text in widget areas. Give a drop shadow to the text which you want to highlight and just place the shortcode at anywhere you want. The plugin also has a shortcode generator which allows to to generate shortcode for the buttons easily.

Call to Action Buttons Plugin

You can download the plugin from here: Drop Shadow Boxes

2- MaxButtons: The next plugin in this category is MaxButtons by Max Foundry. By this plugin, you can create beautiful css3 call to action buttons for your website. The plugin offers you a lot of editing options you can play around with to create an awesome button. Edit text, font size, colors, shadows and many more. Check the video and visit plugin site for more information.

Most interesting and importantly -

Pinner can see his pins activity
How many people visited your website through PINTEREST. Your site should be verified for this
You can see your most pinned, repins, clicked PINS by this analytics feature.

Introducing Pinterest Web Analytics

Read more at http://business.pinterest.com/analytics/

The most common vulnerabilities to a wordpress based website exploits are:

- Out of Date WordPress Software: The first issue is an outdated version of wordpress software. You always get a message in wordpress backend to update the software version since wordpress moderators frequently launch updates and patches so we need to update the software timely. Its very easy, just backup all files and click update button.

- Poor Login Credentials: Many people use  very common and poor login credentials like PASSWORD as a password or some name as password. Change the admin username and password, dont user name as admin which is default in wordpress. Use strong password using a password generator. Change admin url. There are some plugins available which allows you to change the url of wordpress admin panel and change username of admin.

best site security measures

Solution -You can find several security plugins for hardening the security your wordpress website. Take a look at some of them below:
- Better WP Security: Better WP Security plugin allows you to harden the security of a wordpress website easily in just a few steps. It allows you to easily change admin login url, admin username, limit the number of failed login attempts hence keeping the attackers away from your website.

- Wordfence: WordPress is another free security plugin that includes a firewall, virus scanning and security hardening system.

- Locating the malicious codes that being injected in wordpress website files

- Removing those codes

Starting from the symptoms  that shows you that your wordpress website have been hacked or some malware is there on the site.

1- Unknown users in admin panel: If you see n number of unknown users in your wordpress admin panel which you think are fake or created automatically, then it means that site being hacked and passwords are compromised.

2- A malware warning by browser -

wordpress-malware-warning-solution

How to remove this -

Usually the hackers injects the malicious code in some selected wordpress files. index.php, footer.php, header.php and sometimes in all the files of wordpress. If the code is in only the 3 files then you can clean it easily, but if the code is in all files the its a bit hard to clean.

Just check these files and delete the code. After that, you have to login to google webmasters account and submit the site for a review. Google reviews the site and then you will not see this warning of malware, if code have been removed successfully.

See the snapshot for your reference.

wordpress footer malicious code

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1 -Better WP Security: Recently I saw that my own website have been attacked by some hacker and a number of spam users been created automatically. Those users were posting spam posts in my blog. Then I installed this plugin which is created so well that protects your website from such hackers and intruders. It hardens the WordPress security system by hiding important areas of your site like wp admin. It also protects important files like htaccess and prevents brute force attack attempts.

You can download it from here: http://bit51.com/software/better-wp-security/

2- Contact Form 7: This is the most easy to use and best plugin for adding a contact form to your WordPress Website.

Plugin site: http://contactform7.com/

3- Flamingo: Most of the times you have contact form in your website which sends a enquiry to your email if someone filled your contact form. But if you want to save all those messages at one place in your website, then use this plugin. This plugin saves the messages in wordpress backend which were sent using contact form 7.

Plugin site: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flamingo/

4- Akismet: Use this plugin to get rid of spammers. this plugin keep spammers away from your website.

5- All in One SEO Pack: This plugin is best for making your wordpress based website seo ready. This is the most downloaded and easiest seo plugin which allows you to add meta tags to your website and many other seo settings. The plugin was created by  Michael Torbert