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DATE: 29 April 2010
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TOTAL: 8hrs, 40mins

1. Visited some websites for tips and tricks in designing a website:
http://websitehelpers.com/design/
http://www.cyberindian.com/web-designing/8-tips-for-great-website.php
http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/webdesign_tips.asp for tips

· Clean Layout Design: A clean layout that uses a lot of white space enhances a site's looks.
· Neat and Easy Navigation – for the users to find what they are looking for easily. Most websites display their navigation bar at the left side and at the bottom.
· Website Readability – the content must be readable on its background. Don’t use light text on light background and dark text on dark background.
· Avoid Sleazy Elements - Don't distract your visitors with blinking or scrolling text, animated GIFs, or auto-loading sound for these are distracting. Minimize flash and graphics – they increase your file size.
· Make it easy to find stuff - Include a way to get back to the home page, on every page and a menu on every page.
· Content is King – you should provide a valuable content for every page

2. Started designing another template for SEARCA while creating the Artisteer User Manual.

3. Finished the User Manual for Artisteer.

4. Continued watching Drupal Essential Training

VI. Managing Users on Your Site
Control
· Drupal has one super user that can access everything
· And two built in roles: authenticated and anonymous users
· But you can add more users as many as you like
o Go to Administer > User Management > Roles > Type the name of the new role
o To edit the permission of the new role, go to Administer > User Management > Permissions > check the boxes of the permissions for the new role > Save Permissions
· The admin can also assign roles to different users as he wishes

Users
· Log out as an Administrator to view what your site looks like for users
· Click the link Create a New Account > fill up the text fields for the username and email address > click Create New Account. An instruction will appear telling the user that further instructions were sent to his email address.
· Log in as an Administrator to see what happens when a user tries to create a new account.
· Go to Administer > User Management > Users. You could edit the user’s username, the email address, password or even block that user. You could also give role to the user.
· The user will then receive an email with links to finish registration process.
· The admin can also add new User. Administer > Users > Add User > fill up the username, email address, password, status, roles > Notify the user account > click Create New Account.
· You can also prevent people from entering certain names or addresses.
o Go to Administer > User Management > Access Rules > Add Rule > set Access Type to Deny > choose a Rule Type (username, email, host) > on the mask text filed, type the name you would wish to deny access to > click Add Rule.
o When you add the wildcard % in the Mask field, it blocks all strings no matter how long they are.
· The admin has more options of how users will register to your site.
o Go to Administer > User Management > User Settings > specify options in Public Registration, User registration Guidelines, User email settings and, Signatures and Pictures section > Save Configuration.
· The admin can also block or delete users, Administer > User Management > Users.