The mortgage crisis of 2008, that started from the United States and continued spreading all around the world, has damaged Europe seriously and arguably caused its own sovereign debt crisis. The boom of granted credits before the crisis makes the situation after tremendously bad. The European countries whose heyday was a result of intensive construction and artificial growth of lending, have had great problems during the last two years.

There are several countries that are not able to cover their public debt. Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy are the members of the European Union which needed urgent help from the institutions such as International Monetary Fund and several lenders of last resort.

The beginning of the debt crisis in Greece was the beginning of the European debt crisis. During the last quarter of 2009 the news about the fake budget statistics of Greece and its budget deficit of more than 12%, were the first sights of the looming storm. 160% of debt to GDP coupled with the problems mentioned above made the situation in Greece became really complicated. Also, its international investors withdrew their investments. During 2010 the country received the necessary help to cover part of its debt with new loan, but this measure was ineffective and the crisis deepened.

At the same time Ireland, Spain and Portugal had sovereign debt problems as well. Their property boom created an artificial growth of the economies. The inability of different borrowers to pay for their debt changed the state of the financial institutions. The problem there is not only mortgages, but also the loans of the businessmen from the building industry.

Each of the countries- Greece, Ireland, Spain and Portugal had a problem with its public debt. The solution always is increasing the debt with another loan, but not always this solution is the working one. For instance, the Greek situation deepened so seriously that the bankruptcy of the country is absolutely possible.

Furthermore, the decreased value of the Euro affected negatively the financial markets and provoked their instability. In the end of 2011, Italy was the next EU member with economic problems. The government was changed and the Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was replaced by Mario Monti. The same fortune had the governing of the rest of the problematic countries. Europe was and now continues to be divided in groups. Some countries will provide help, another will not. The future will show us what will happen with “the sick children” of Europe.

2008 was the year of the most devastating financial crisis during the last seventy years. The Wall street crisis of 1929 was a good example that human nature is always the same, people want more and more until they lose control of what they do. The present crisis is the crisis of the mortgages. Comercial and  investment banks, diverse funds too lost more than 200 billion dollars because of speculative subprime mortgage lending, investments in mortgage bonds and derivatives based on mortgage bonds. There are some specific reasons for the debt crisis of 2008:

• There are no standards for granting credit.
• There is no control and discipline for the all participants in the service credits process
• Overestimating of the credit ratio of the mortgage bonds
• Low quality of the credit risk department’s work
•  Bad rules for reporting risk
• Improper incentives for mortgage issuers and investment banks who package mortgages as collateralized debt obligations and other toxic financial instruments

The roots of the worldwide collapse are American and logically, the Americans bore responsibility for what their bankers and financial specialists did. Europe and its financial institutions were affected by the American mortgage crisis as well. The proliferation of the problems was immediate. The negative results of that are obvious.

The crisis of the financial area damaged the economies of the leading and not leading countries all around the world. There is no doubt, the crisis led to a lot of negative effects for all- powerful and not powerful economies. Furthermore, the negative consequences of the mortgage system collapse are strongly related to the measures of the economic leaders. The United States increased its national debt, as did many European states. The level of unemployment increased as well. During 2011 Standard and Poor’s decreased the American credit ratio with one level- from AAA+ to AA+.

China developed its economy greatly and made it really steady. Because of its surplus China continues to buy American debt. On the other hand, the United States increased their debt because they bought cheap and retail products by China. This is the principal sequence of the event. Today the situation with the American debt and China growth is the same. We expect to understand what will happen during the 2012 and the next few years with the leading positions of the developed countries and the competitive growth of the developing countries. Moreover, the crisis was followed by other smaller collapse- the crisis of euro and euro zone. The economic and financial situation is controversial elsewhere.

It is not easy to assess a web site. There are a lot of things to be checked. The web design is the first of them and the essential one. To be more precise, I will talk about concrete websites and their web designs. My favorite series are part of the TV channel- The CW. I usually check their news through facebook. I like their website and its web design but not completely. I am impressed by the way they present all the new information but I do not like that the access to their videos is limited. When someone visits their website it is not possible for him not to see a perfect sequence of the web design. Everything is put in perfect order.

The most important thing for each user are the full episodes of the series. Their position is in front of the user’s eyes. This is a really good web design decision. The active icon “full episodes” is followed by other icons from the left to the right: shows, videos, schedule, social, mobile, music, photos, blog, stations, feedback. These are all important things that people are interested in, are visible and with immediate access. The CW web design specialists are good professionals. They know their work.

The colors of the website are chosen perfectly as well. They are not intrusive, but enough impressive.

Another reason to say I like the web design of the CW TV is that they always use good advertising. For example, when someone visits the website, he or she see the active icons and beneath them there are a large advertisement of the series which the TV will show tonight. I like not only the web design of the page, but also its content. Obviously, the web design specialists are working with the best copywriters. The content of the page is high quality. The team understands the desires of their users. They understand that the web design, i.e. the external part of the page, is essential, but the quality of the information, i.e. the internal part of the website, is important as well.

It is not easy to create something competitive. Nowadays, there are so many things and it is really difficult to surprise the users with something original. For these reasons, the web design specialists and the copywriters of the CW TV should be applauded for their good work and encourage to keep on doing it.

Nowadays to be successful with your website it is really important for it to have a perfect web design. Being easy to manage, the website could become more preferred than another one. When a user finds your website at the search engine, he or she decided to visit it.

The first thirty seconds of their visiting are crucial. If the users like the web design and the access to the page is relatively easy, they will visit the site again. If the users are impressed by the order of the site, they will visit it more times. This order is the core of the web design. The better web design specialist knows how to draw the attention of the users. The position of the web site’s different sections is their responsibility.

The specialists should determine where to put the introduction, the history section, the key information or the job offers. The web design specialist should understand the nature of the users and their expectations. For that reason, they should have more than IT knowledge. The web design specialists should learn marketing strategies and more about the psychology of consumer behavior. It is for sure that knowing more about consumer customs and preferences means producing better web designs.

Furthermore, quality web design gives an user security in his or her choice. The main goal of each website is having numerous users. These users, who are satisfied from the services, are able to attract their friends and acquaintances to the website as well. That is the most important type of advertising: word of mouth. It is not difficult to prove the significance of high-quality web design.  The web design is like the external part of every product. This part is the part which people pay attention to first.

Another important skill which is needed for web design specialists is the knowledge about the meaning of colors. Colors are the essential part of the whole attraction which a good website provokes. Every color has its meaning. For instance, if the specialist wants to focus on concrete information, this information should be written with red letters or in bold. Using certain colors is a good way to highlight certain information. These are the reasons to claim that the web design specialist should have knowledge about the meaning of the colors.

Last but not least about web design- it is the most interesting part of the IT industry.

Recently, some great tools for SQL server scalability were released on the market. With these tools the SQL servers can reach higher percentage of efficiency and what is more important, the work with SQL databases would be far more smooth than before. Where is the reason for that?

First of all, the problem with the increasing of more and more SQL workloads stored on the servers is reaching it’s critical level. So, the solution is needed and the solution now is to share the workloads across different servers – SQL server virtualization. By doing that, the IT specialists are standing upon a different problem which is how to deal with all these different servers which create more problems that they solve.

The solution here are the tools for SQL server scalability that we were talking about in the beginning. You can find them on the net and there you also will find support and instructions about how to use them.

When you get such a tool you guarantee your work with servers will be done smoothly. Nevertheless there are also some other benefits you will get. Benefits like far more higher percentage of storage utilization, greater control over the data and high quality of service.

All of this is also important for good SQL server consolidation.

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