Internet has become a very important tool for communication and marketing of products and services. The number of people having internet accessibility is increasing rapidly and many people are taking advantage of this situation. Most companies and business are using websites. In fact, it is hard to find a company or any business entity that does not have a website. However, some of the websites on the internet are copies of websites previously constructed. This is usually done by web designers who have recently graduated and are having a tough time finding work due to lack of experience.
Most people are paranoid to contract new graduates because they are believed not have hands on working experience. In response, the new graduates try all they can to earn some money. They charge much lower fees for designing websites because they do not do it the way it should be done. They usually copy design layouts and codes from websites available on the internet. Graphics, images and unique artwork are also vulnerable to theft. This can be very discouraging necessitating strategies that will prevent your design and code from being copied by other designers.
You can discourage this by using applications that make such elements unique for your site. An example is the mascot illustration. This is done by incorporating the name of your company or business as well as the services offered in the mascot illustration. The illustration marks your company or business and the services offered and blocks use of the same elements by another web designer. Specific patterns and gradients can be added to every object in the site and then incorporated into the mascot illustration. This makes it practically impossible for your objects to be copied by any other person because the unique patterns and gradients cannot be scrapped off easily.
Watermarks can also prevent objects from your site from being copied. Watermarks are usually put below the site and should not compromise the way screenshot and images on the site look. Watermarks are not special objects and anything can be used as a watermark as long as the quality of the site is maintained. You can for example use your logo or unique images as watermarks for your site. Trade marking the site and the logo either with or without mascot is another strategy that can safeguard your website elements. Once you trade mark anything, it is reserved for you and it cannot be used by another person. Logos and elements that have trademark cannot be copied by other web designers.
Use of PHP and encrypted data also protects your site elements. Encryption simply means that data cannot be obtained before it gets to the target audience. The data is encoded into something that cannot be understood and transferred to the recipient. Once the data get to the recipient, it is decoded in to the message sent so that the recipient can be able to read it. If someone tries to obtain the data after it has been sent before getting to the recipient, the data cannot be understood.
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