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Drive Traffic to Your Business Blog

You won’t get any business from your company blog if nobody knows about it. To reach its full potential, a blog needs traffic. To get visitors, use a mix o...  Read more

How to Jazz Up Your Website

Do you want to have a top-notch website? Here are 8 important questions to ask yourself.  Read more

Fight the Faux: Battling Cybersquatting

It's not only the Coca-Colas of the world that have to worry about protecting their brands from abuse on the Web. Small companies can also easily fall victim...  Read more

2008: What a Mashup!

The technologies that will take off among small businesses in the coming year build upon last year's fascination with Web applications and collaboration tools.  Read more

The Venerable Blog Gets a Facelift

Web veterans and professional bloggers are leading the way with new blog homepage designs. They do a better job of highlighting popular old posts, contributi...  Read more

Web Development Done Right

Doing-it-yourself website design might seem easy, but for the better of your business you should go with hiring a pro.  Read more

Ajax On Rails: A Web Application Shortcut

The Ruby on Rails application framework and the Ajax programming language are together becoming a "dream team" for small business Web developers. To make the...  Read more

Do You Know Where Your Content Is?

Web content used to just appear on individual webpages. But now your content now may be accessed by people in dozens of other places. Your content can beco...  Read more

Online Video Adds Earning Potential to Your Website

For a long time it didn’t really make sense to add video for your site. Now savvy companies are attracting a booming audience with Web video or even peddli...  Read more

Website Design for the BlackBerry Generation

Most small and mid-size businesses haven't realized how terrible their websites look on handheld devices. Much less, have they registered their Web address w...  Read more

The Year of the Web Widget

These boxes featuring calendars, video, or content from other websites are cropping up all over the Web. Should your business be adding "blog bling" to its w...  Read more

About Your Website's "About" Page

Telling potential customers, partners, or suppliers about your business should not be an afterthought when designing a website.  Read more

Smart Links: Tips for Linking to Other Sites

Small and mid-size businesses can broaden their reach online by understanding the right -- and the wrong -- ways to link with other websites.  Read more

Is PHP the New Java?

A look at this increasingly popular coding language and whether small businesses should be using it for Web development.  Read more

A Free Web Analytics Service

Compete.com offers free web analytics to small businesses and consumers.  Read more

How to Avoid "Abandoned Cart Syndrome"

A bad buying interface can doom your online sales. These tips will ensure customers don’t abandon your site before buying.  Read more

Reducing the Geek Factor in RSS

Really Simple Syndication allows small businesses to offer free marketing to customers on a regular basis -- if only customers knew how to use the technology.  Read more

Keys for Designing a Successful Site

What to strive for when designing your business website.  Read more

Decoding RSS

Besides culling information, RSS allows businesses to broadcast it without being blocked by spam filters.  Read more

Building Applications with AJAX

Programming using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is behind some of the most popular applications online -- and it can help make your site stand out too.  Read more

Hiring a Web Designer

Five things to look for when hiring someone to design your business website.  Read more

Why You Need a Website

A surprising number of small businesses have been slow to go online. Here's why you need to be online now, whether you've got something to sell or not.  Read more

How to Register a Domain Name

The process of picking a domain name and registering it on the Internet has changed since the early days.  Read more

The Onion's Online Anniversary

How your favorite workday diversion almost missed out on the Internet.  Read more

Inc.com Nominated for Top Online Awards

The website has been selected as a finalist for the Webby and EPpy awards.  Read more