Setting Up a Website


Recent Setting Up a Website Articles

Why You Need a Website

By Tim Stevens |  Sep 1, 2006

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

By Julia Scheeres |  Sep 1, 2006

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

By Stephanie Clifford |  May 1, 2006

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

Inc.com Nominated for Top Online Awards

By Angus Loten |  Apr 1, 2006

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

Lucky or Smart

By Bo Peabody |  Jan 1, 2005

There's a formula for creating good fortune in business. Here's how one entrepreneur came upon it.  Read more

Build Your Virtual Store

By Michael Aneiro |  Sep 1, 2004

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

By Anne Stuart |  Mar 1, 2004

How to evaluate Web hosts and to choose the one that's best for your business.  Read more

The Perfect Host

By Anne Stuart |  Mar 1, 2004

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

By Anne Stuart |  Feb 1, 2004

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

By Leigh Buchanan |  Dec 1, 2002

Jill-Anne Partain bet that a New York-style business could help revive her distressed town.  Read more

The Dirtbag Demographic

By Leigh Buchanan |  Dec 1, 2002

Using E-mail and a Web site, Douglas Canning reached out and touched practically everyone who could help his start-up.  Read more

Penny-Wise, Site-Foolish

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Feb 1, 2002

Don't scrimp when you pick a Web host -- unless you like greeting customers with "Site not found."  Read more

Where, Oh, Where to Begin

By Bo Burlingham |  Nov 1, 2001

Trying to decide what business to go into, and other perplexing problems.  Read more

Are the New Internet Names Right for You?

By Rhonda Abrams |  Nov 1, 2001

Are you frustrated trying to find just the right name for your Web site? Is every .com name you' ve wanted already taken? You' ve now got two new options:...  Read more

Web Designer as Business Owner

By Mitchell Friedman |  Aug 1, 2001

Melody Drew began designing Web pages in 1997 and officially started her Web design business, Melody's Pages , in...  Read more

4 Web Host Warning Signs

By Angela Hammontree |  Jun 26, 2001

Here are the most common indicators that a Web host is in danger of folding.  Read more

The Price of Ignorance

By Ilan Mochari |  Jun 1, 2001

How much should you pay for a premium Web site? If only there were a simple answer.  Read more

Name Your Web Business

By Stan Soper |  Jun 1, 2001

You've snagged a great domain name and now you're ready to incorporate. All you need to do is add "Inc." to the end of your domain name, right? ...  Read more

4 Fatal Errors of Web Writing

By Leslie O'Flahavan and Marilynne Rudick |  Jun 1, 2001

We've logged lots of online hours searching for sites that illustrate the Web writing principles in our new course: Writing for the Web. After chec...  Read more

Creating a Style Guide

By Leslie O'Flahavan and Marilynne Rudick |  Jun 1, 2001

Even after choosing a published style guide as a primary reference, you'll need to customize it for your organization. Your editorial process will ...  Read more

Get a Life, Buy a Domain Name

By Lee Hodgson |  Jan 1, 2001

Web-hosting companies are beginning to offer free domain names, or, to put it more accurately, free Web addresses. By signing up for these services...  Read more

If You Publish It, Will They Come?

By Jan Gardner |  Nov 1, 2000

If you've decided to jump into online publishing -- putting out an online newsletter, magazine, or othercontent that will interest your customers -- you m...  Read more

Web Awards 2000: General Excellence

By Christopher Caggiano |  Nov 1, 2000

Sumerset Custom Houseboats earned the 2000 Inc. Web Award for General Excellence because of the innovative ways it maximizes customers' lifetime val...  Read more

Web Awards 2000: ROI

By Anne Stuart |  Nov 1, 2000

Low-cost start-up, strong revenues, and fast growth are some reasons that DirectWireless.com and Affordable Supplements landed second and third place, respec...  Read more

Shhh. That's Classified

By David Roberts |  Sep 1, 2000

How do you hire new employees, lease a building, get financing, and develop a new product in total secrecy? A CIA veteran tells you how.  Read more

Inside an Internet Incubator

By Thea Singer |  Jul 1, 2000

Incubators can be lifesavers for fledgling dot-coms, but Veritas Medicine may be regretting its decision to join one.  Read more

Do I Need to Plan Differently for a Dot-Com Business?

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jul 1, 2000

Is drawing up a business plan different for a dot-com? The real challenge today is adapting the intellectual rigors of traditional business planning to the r...  Read more

That Magic Moment

By George Gendron |  Jun 1, 2000

em Inc. /em magazine's editor-in-chief talks with Earvin "Magic" Johnson about how the focus on fast money makes rising sta...  Read more

Web Expertise in Novel Locales

By Anne Marie Borrego |  Jun 1, 2000

Now that the Internet has established itself as a must-have component of every business, brick-and-mortar companies are rushing en masse to get online. Th...  Read more

Web Business Model: Product Sales

By Crystal Dreisbach |  Jun 1, 2000

A Web business based on product sales involves selling a physical, shippable product online. There are three main ways to sell products on the Web:...  Read more

Web Business Model: Service Sales

By Crystal Dreisbach |  Jun 1, 2000

Services too, as well as products, can be sold via the Internet. Here are the three examples of this kind of business model: Read more

Web Business Model: Information Delivery

By Crystal Dreisbach |  Jun 1, 2000

One of the biggest benefits of the World Wide Web is that it presents a fast, efficient, and practical way to share information around the world. Informat...  Read more

How can I effectively and inexpensively market my company at a convention?

By Delilah Obie |  May 1, 2000

Marketing & Advertising mentor Jay Conrad Levinson responds to the following question from an inc.com user: I'm a 19-year-old en...  Read more

There's No Such Thing as a Free Launch

By Andrew Raskin |  Apr 1, 2000

Andrew Raskin, CEO of Gazooba.com, prepares to wow investors with a unique presentation at an industry conference.  Read more

Understand How On-Site Search Works

By Russell Shaw |  Apr 1, 2000

Learn how on-site search is similar to (and different from) Web searches and find out about the mechanics of on-site searching. Then you'll need to decide...  Read more