Today's web 2 sites all have some unique features that set it a bit apart from the earlier websites. Web 2 means a new revolution on the web with greater focus on interactivity between sites and a lot of socializing and formation of new online communities. The modern style of web designing has certain common features and one could say that the key word here is indeed simplicity. No more flashy websites with strong colors to tire away people.

Contemporary web design is distinguished by,

• Simple layout
• Centralized orientation
• Neutral background colors
• Good spacing between text
• Clear and bigger text

Thus web designers are able to come closer to the overall objective of a web site. Any visitor to the website is well guided because of the use of lesser visuals and images /icons that are very appropriately chosen. The required effect is created by using the minimal required words. In the earlier days web designers believed that the visitors to the websites were to be motivated and did not know what to expect from a web site. However all that has changed. Today visitors know what to get and from which site.

Current web 2 design trends include,

• Use of cute icons but sparingly
• Giving a realistic effect to water droplets buttons etc
• Use of rich details
• Using star flashes
• More use of gradients
• Restricted use of the number of columns in a page
• Giving an illusion of reflection and the shiny table effects
• Aqua themes using blue and white colors
• Distinct top section of web page
• Clear and visible navigation

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Data volumes are growing dramatically by the day and every moment. While considering the fields of medical science and astronomy etc we realize that the job of looking into the data is no more like the yester years when it was possible for just human beings to interpret it. Today the sheer volume of data has made it mandatory to at least partially automate the data analysis process. New tools and methods have to be developed to help human beings from getting lost in the ever multiplying universe of digital data. To make any sense of such huge quantities of data, it needs to be made more compact and understandable.

What do the business people do with the data? In the business environment data is primarily used to,

• Gain competitive advantage
• Give better service to customers
• Increase efficiency

What is knowledge discovery in data mining? Termed only in the year 1989, KDD is the overall process of discovering knowledge from data and today data mining is actually a step in the process. Here one must emphasize that knowledge is the end product of data discovery. KDD has included new processes like, data preparation, data selection and data cleaning, incorporation of appropriate prior knowledge, and proper interpretation of the results of mining.

KDD is a term that has evolved from other related fields like machine learning, pattern recognition, statistics, AI, knowledge acquisition, data visualization, and high-performance computing. It is a very interactive process where a lot of decision has to be taken by the user.

The application areas of KDD are,

• Marketing
• Artificial Intelligence
• Finance / Investment
• Fraud detection
• Manufacturing
• Telecommunications
• Internet agents

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A deposition by definition is evidence that is given under oath and gets recorded for being used in court later on. In the US, depositions are given outside the court in well defined circumstances and are recognized for even criminal cases. Depositions are part of the e discovery process. What is e-discovery? Before both the parties (litigants) in any litigation go to trial, they have to prepare and collect relevant information from each other and this process is called e-discovery. During litigation, depositions become one of the most useful tools for any attorney or lawyer.

What are the different formats of depositions?

• Chart summary deposition
• Page-by-page deposition
• Topic summary deposition
• Customized depositions

Each different style or format has its advantages. In a chart type format the gist of the content is presented in a continuous fashion while the topic summary helps in quick identification of the subject matter.

There are various litigation support companies offering deposition and court reporting services using state of the art various types of technologies are being used. Real time court reporting and quick transcription work with a minimal turnaround time can make deposition transcripts available in very less time. In the US different states and cities may have different practices with regards to how the transcripts have to be produced. Companies with contacts and representation all over the US are capable of taking up deposition work on a national basis.

Lack of witness at trials may frequently require video recordings of depositions to be taken. The attorney who has ordered the deposition starts questioning the deponent, who is notified with a subpoena. The court reporter has to make a verbatim stenographic record of all that is said during the deposition. This is called direct examination. Cross examinations by other attorneys also take place. Sometimes, after the deposition enough information and evidence gets accumulated leading to a settlement out of court thereby saving on the costs of litigation.

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Web design principles are universal and often derive from other art forms. So what should be the elements of design especially for the web? One must realize that the web-based environment requires unique needs to be considered before starting the design process.

The basic question web designers have to decide at the outset for a website is whether to go for a fixed or a percentage wise fluid based designing. How do we choose what type of design is better? Well it again will depend on three important factors.

• One must know the user well
• Understand the intended audience
• Find what the client expects from the website

Fixed width means a certain pixel width that could be of standard 800px wide. With a higher resolution monitor the web page will retain the same width. Thus it is usually used whenever the web pages have to be consistent or will have many pictures with less text. When it is a fluid width design the width of the web page expands according to the width of the web browser. Portions of the page will need to expand so that the page fills the width of the screen. It is best suited for web sites with side columns or E-commerce web sites and web sites with a lot of content and those that do not require having an exact alignment.

Other factors to be considered during the web design include,

• Using web safe colors
• Web safe fonts for text
• Type of graphics compression
• Accessibility
• Usability

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There are many specialized data entry solutions for collection and data entry of high volumes of forms. These are mainly used in the health sector or during other census or survey. High end data entry solutions concentrate on accuracy at the level of input of the data itself. Thus for more accuracy and perfection, the data entry application is focused on the input level than at the receiving end. Automatic bar code reading and other intelligent scanners may be used to enter data automatically and received in real time itself.

Some of the features of such a high end data entry system can have features such as follows,for high volume of forms.

• Double key verification mode
• Multilingual support application
• Multiple entry modes
• Fill-in-the-blank" screen forms
• Balancing of multi-field validations
• Insertion, deletion and modification of data records
• Scanning of attached documents
• Ability to modify and correct the data before printing
• Data validation & editing
• Conditional verification
• Automatic barcode reading at the receiver end
• Automated publishing on the web
• Journaling of all transactions

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When the law professional has to do legal research he can refer to different resources that are available. They are either offline printed materials like journals, treatises, periodicals, as well as online resources for both State and Federal law.

Find below a few online and offline employment law resources that are commonly used,

Online Resources

• http://www.ada.gov/
• http://www.eeoc.gov/
• http://www.disabilityinfo.gov/
• www.findlaw.com/01topics/27labor/index.html
• www.abanet.org/labor/home.html

Offline Resources

• Labor and Employment Law (MatthewBender 2004)
• National Employment Lawyers Association,Employee Rights Litigation: Pleading andPractice (Matthew Bender, 1991)
• BNA's Americans with Disabilities ActManual (BNA 1992)
• John J. Coleman III, Disability Discriminationin Employment (Clark Boardman Callaghan1991)
• David G. Evans, Federal and State Guideto Employee Medical Leave, Benefits, and DisabilitiesLaws (West 1999)
• Fair Labor Standards Act (Ellen C. Kearns,ed., ABA 1999)
• James O. Castagnera et al., TerminationOf Employment (West 1984)
• Hofstra Labor & Employment Law JournalJournal of Employment and Labor Law(University of Pennsylvania Law School)

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The 14th Annual Marketing to U.S. Hispanics & Latin America Conference brought by the Strategic Research Institute will be held from January 27-29, 2008 at the The Westin Colonnade, Coral Gables - Coral Gables, Florida.

This ALM conference will definitely be a great opportunity for anyone who is interested to learn about the latest and best ways to market any product or services to the ever growing online US Hispanic population.

Registrations can be done at, https://www.almevents.com/CustomerFiles_sri/form/basic_reg_form.cfm?iteration_id=771&fi_id=1133&dialog=YES

Detailed agenda for all the 3 days is available at, http://www.almevents.com/conf_page.cfm?pt=/CustomerFiles_sri/agenda/detailed_agenda.cfm&web_page_id=8734&web_id=1066&instance_id=29&pid=675&iteration_id=771


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Adobe's Photoshop is definitely one of the best photos editing software available today. The images can be manipulated with different types of Photoshop tools. A list of the photo editing tools that are available in Photoshop include,

• Elliptical Marquee
• Rectangular Marquee
• Lasso
• Polygonal Lasso
• Magnetic Lasso
• Slice
• Healing Brush
• Clone Stamp
• Pen
• Brush
• Pattern
• Sharpen
• Bucket
• Art
• History
• Airbrush
• Background Eraser
• Ellipse
• Magic Eraser
• Color
• Sampler
• Smudge
• Patch
• Color Selecting box
• Freeform Pen
• Burn

To know about the purpose of each of these tools and more along with its icons and keys go to http://simplephotoshop.com/photoshop_tools/indexf.htm

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Time is very important for lawyers and with tons of data it is very important to get to the required document as quickly as possible. Legal coding is the process of summarizing or making of a keyword data from a document. Used in the legal profession it is very useful during any litigation to create a fast-search index or database of documents.

Basically there are two types of legal coding, objective and subjective. During objective coding an index of all the documents/ data is made based upon different bibliographic objectives like,

• Title
• Source
• Author
• Date of the doc
• Recipient
• Document format
• Box number

Lawyers and attorneys spend time preparing for litigation and this involves collection of different documents relevant to the case. Thus they have to search and retrieve documents from database. In the earlier days a brief of the documents used to be prepared via dictation by the paralegal staff or secretary using a word processor application.

Subjective coding is the indexing of documents around subjective data. Objective coding options available today involves indexing based on

• Inventory of hot files
• Detailed indexing
• Bibliography

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Web content development is the process of researching, writing, gathering, organizing, and editing information for publication on web site and can consist of prose, graphics, pictures, recordings, movies and other media assets. In today's digital world any web content after its development has to be well managed and so the term web content management encompasses a larger context and is a collaborative process.

• Content creation
• Content updating
• Publishing
• Translation
• Archiving of content
• Retirement of the content

Who are the different people involved in content management? They include the content writer, the editor, content managers, translator, publisher, administrator and other staff besides the consumer.

A content management system (CMS) is software that is used for content management and may include a document management system. While publishing for the web content management systems are used so that many people can easily interact with the content. Other areas of content management is in the inter office use of digital computer files, image media, audio files and electronic documents.

Another important feature of content management is the work flow which is facilitated by e-mail or automatic routing methods. The best example of a CMS is the online Wikipedia website that uses the Wiki software for collaborative content management. The system has a repository to store huge amount of content that enable effective search and retrieval.

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Legal transcription technology is fast evolving. Legal dictations are recorded and sent to the professional transcription professional who could be located either within your city limits of half way round the globe in India.. There are many dictation programs that enable recording of voice and also typing. Dictation can be done using different methods like,

• Using a dictation device
• Dictation on to a computer or laptop
• PDA dictation and recording
• Dictation by telephone
• Dictation over the Internet
• Court recordings & meetings

Some of the features of a good court reporting software include,

• Simultaneous recording possibility (up to 32 channels)
• Digital audio recording with high quality signal processing.
• Transmission using FTP /email or computer network.
• Automatic file size management/ breaking
• Overlapped file breaks at preset intervals.
• Must be user friendly
• Possible time stamping of bookmarks with notes/ recording
• Audio listening possibility in real time
• Recording in formats like to wav, mp3 or dct
• Sorting of recordings by name /date /size and search using keywords.
• Automatic error notification.
• Various types of password security.
• Free minor upgrades

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based legal transcription outsourcing service provider offering affordable solutions in transcription specialities like, court proceedings transcription, trial transcription, wire tap transcription, legal letter transcription, verbatim transcription and general correspondence transcription services to clients in the UK, Canada the UK and Australia.

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What is class action litigation? It is a legal procedure that is used to handle a law suit when many people have been injured by a common act or a set of actions. Class actions can be brought in either federal or state courts, though a recent federal law.

In the United States Federal Courts, class actions are governed by Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Defendants can move class action lawsuits from state to federal courts by the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005. A lawsuit becomes a class action when one or more plaintiffs who is called Lead Plaintiffs files a lawsuit claiming some kind of harm and then asks the court to certify the case as a class action.

What are the types of common cases in this area of litigation? They are law suits involving,

• Tobacco
• Asbestos
• Financial frauds
• Employment
• Pollution
• Breast implants
• Agent Orange (herbicide)

What makes the best class action attorneys? Previous experience in class litigation with a good track record and sufficient resources to do legal research are the main criteria that are looked into while choosing a lawyer for action class litigation.

One of the biggest advantages of class action litigation is that this type of law suit is an aggregation of a large number of individual claims. With smaller recoveries class action often makes the aggregated recovery worthy enough for the attorney's effort. Thus it increases the efficiency of litigation and also lowers the cost of litigation for the individuals involved.

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With "legalese" on its way out, understanding the FRCP (Federal Rules of Civil Procedures) is all set to become easier to understand.

On December 1st 2007, the restyling of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures will come into effect. The restyled rules are shorter and easier to read. They can be seen at http://judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/printers/109th/31308.pdf .

What changes are done to the style? Well here is a brief list of the different types of style changes done to the Federal rules;

• More concise
• More headings/subheadings
• More vertical lists
• Graphic hierarchy
• Avoiding intensifiers
• Elimination of outdated material
• Elimination of repetitious material
• Elimination of syntactic ambiguities
• Reorganization of jumbled provisions
• Breaking up sentences that are too long
• Minimizing cross references
• Minimize of-phrases
• The word "Shall" is being banished
• Avoiding legalese

To see the restyled rules on the US court website, go to http://www.uscourts.gov/rules/supct1106/CV_CLEAN_FINAL5-30-07.pdf

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Legal research begins with an analysis of the facts of a problem and concludes with the application and communication of the results of the investigation. The purpose of doing legal research is of course to support legal decision making.

There is a lot of material online that can be used for doing legal research. Libraries have always been a great source for doing legal research. Here are the links to some of the good law libraries.

• www.aallnet.org
• http://lawlibrary.ucdavis.edu
• http://lalaw.lib.ca.us
• http://lib.law.washington.edu
• www.ll.georgetown.edu
• www.socialaw.com
• www.lexum.umontreal.ca/index_en.html
• www.lawlib.state.md.us
• www.lawlib.state.ma.us
• www.law.utexas.edu
• www.jenkinslaw.org
• www.law.indiana.edu/v-lib
• www.librarylaw.com
• www.sll.state.tx.us
• www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us
• www.nocall.org
• www.smcll.org

Other popular legal research links are,

• http://www.catalaw.com
• http://www.law.cornell.edu
• http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org
• http://www.findlaw.com
• http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/lr
• http://www.access.gpo.gov
• http://www.hg.org
• http://www.law.indiana.edu/v-lib
• http://www.jurist.law.pitt.edu
• http://www.law.com
• http://www.lawsource.com
• http://www.llrx.com
• http://thomas.loc.gov
• http://www.virtualchase.com

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While designing an e-commerce website there are many types of security issues which have to be well planned and executed or implemented on the website. What are these? Let me briefly list out.

• SSL (secure socket layers) encryption
• Multiple administrators login
• IP (Internet Protocol) blocking
• Access history (administrator)
• Crash proof shopping cart
• Secured database
• Access areas for "members only"
• Forms submission with "Captcha" validation

On the website one must make sure that all credit card transactions are done using 128 bit SSL encryption. One must also make sure that only the last four digits of credit card gets displayed. SSL uses public-key encryption to exchange a session key between the client and server. Different session keys should be used for different transactions which will make decrypting impossible for any one.

Another security related feature is the possibility of live updation of the website which may be done frequently on an e-commerce website. All existing data must be kept intact and nothing should be lost when upgrading the e-commerce website.

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