Stop E-Mail Overload with Wikis, Blogs, and IM
Businesses are getting bogged down by their reliance on e-mail to alert employees about everything from landing big clients to donuts in the kitchen. Other t... Read more
Setting Up a Website
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Raising the Bar for Web Content
Everyone seems to be creating content on the Web these days. As a small business, you are competing with established media companies for eyeballs -- so you b... Read more
Is Your Domain Name Killing Your Business?
Was the name of your company taken in the dot-com world? Or did you add a hyphen or change an "s" to a "z" at the end of your company name figuring that cust... Read more
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
Lucky or Smart
There's a formula for creating good fortune in business. Here's how one entrepreneur came upon it. Read more
Build Your Virtual Store
At some point, every small business must set up shop online. A website can serve as another sales channel, a place to feature products, or just a resource... Read more
The Perfect Host
How to evaluate Web hosts and to choose the one that's best for your business. Read more
The Perfect Host
Choosing the best home base on the Web starts with asking the right questions. For many small to midsized businesses, the first one is, obviously: ... Read more
TechnoFile: Writing Well on the Web
If there's one thing everybody knows about the Web by now, it's that people read differently online than they do on paper. Why, then, do so many bu... Read more
Virginia Is for Manufacturers
Jill-Anne Partain bet that a New York-style business could help revive her distressed town. Read more
The Dirtbag Demographic
Using E-mail and a Web site, Douglas Canning reached out and touched practically everyone who could help his start-up. Read more
