19 January 2012
Information on keeping your website legal when it comes to designing it.

When it comes to getting your website online you need to ensure it is fully legal, including the nature of the business and its content. If you wish to use images and text which you do not own or have not written yourself then you must ensure you contact the legal owner of them and ask permission, the best way to do this is through email and make sure if you do have permission it is written clearly and you keep a number of copies of this to make sure if any matters which are made in the future can be supported by this evidence so you don't get into trouble with company right laws which are taken very seriously when it comes to the online world.

Creating your own text, taking or making your own images (or having a design agency to do it for you) is the best way to ensure your website is meet to the legal standard required and ensures you won't get into bother with it, please be aware if you don't keep your website legal you could end up in court over the matter.

Your website designer should help you with this when it comes to designing and creating your website, personally I always provide advice on this, but at the end of the day it down to the client (the website owner) to ensure their website is fully legal before it goes live to the world. If any of my clients needed any help or needed advice over keeping their website legal, I always encourage them to do so, and I am sure other website designers will do the same.

Keep a log of all your legal matters as they maybe needed in the future.