A website is a collection of related static and/or dynamic web content containing pages, images, videos or other multimedia assets accessible via an Internet address.
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Risks of a website that lets users meet up?
I'm looking into creating a website which would be based on users meeting up (nope, not another dating site!). The obvious worry here is users meeting crazy people and bad things happening. Is there ...
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Company Web-Site
We are building up a new Digital Agency and we are creating our company web site. Because we have just started we don't have any clients in "Our-Portfolio" section nor relevant works that we have ...
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How much money could I make with the following website traffic stats (Adsense, ads)?
I am going to start up a website in the near future and I am aiming to receive at least 10,000 unique page views daily (hopefully up to 100,000 daily). From what I have researched, a CTR of 10% is ...
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Legal issues for a donations website?
I'm about 95% into what started as a personal project but has developed into a nice website with some interest. It's a distributed-donation platform for donating to charities.
Here's a quick ...
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How does a a online community gain initial users prior to launch?
Web startups with the theme of a "community" as in let's say a Match.com, a roommate finding service or even this site for that matter....my question is how do they gain their initial users? I am ...
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Should a new web startup spend the effort required to support IE7?
I'm currently in the final testing stages of launching the release version of my website. Over the past couple days, I've been testing the entire site on IE7 as it's a browser I would like to be able ...
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Marketing in absense of portfolio of projects for a software start-up.
I am starting a mobile/web development outsourcing company. My development team (currently 4 developers) is moving to my starup from our prev. company, that worked in IT, but not in SD outsourcing.
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How to tap an existing market?
I've built a site to review & rate beers. It needs some further work & improvements, but I got it out the door. Better to release than to polish to perfection.
There are a number of existing ...
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What can I do with this now stagnant website (3000+ hours of work)?
For nearly a year, a co-developer and I spent the majority of our time working on a fitness tracking website. We created some neat functionality, but had no idea what we were doing in many other ...
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How do I make website projections?
I own a website that I've been working on for the last couple years, and I'm now at a point where I need to try and raise money from venture capitalists. I am wondering what the best way to formulate ...
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I need a document that both parties will sign agreeing not to sue each other
What kind of document would this be called?
A little background:
Party#1 is the programmer contracted to help build my website. He has signed an NDA/work for hire. Over the last couple months he ...
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Do we still need to have our own ecommerce website?
8 months ago, my wife and I were starting to build our own business. We didn't create our own products, at least not yet for now, what we do is just reselling others product.
We didn't open offline ...
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My webmaster created our website and is now charging me a licensing fee
My webmaster signed an agreement saying that all work done on the website is owned by our company.
He now thinks that he is being payed unfairly and wants the website to be taken down.
He says that ...
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Dividing equity among cofounders when one person is doing most of the work
I shared my startup idea with two of my best friends and it seemed like a great thing to do at the time. The entire thing basically revolves around a particular kind of content and let's just say that ...
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How to sell advertising space on the website during initial stages?
I'm building a web application for an academic community. I'm relying on advertisements as the revenue model for my business. My website is currently in its very initial stage so, how can I get the ...
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Sales Commission website with Geolocation?
I'm looking for a Customer Relationship Management solution with an easy to use interface.
The simplest way to describe what I'm looking for is through a [very rough!] mockup:
The idea is that the ...
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Publicising the business-plan?
Being a libertarian, I am completely honest with all my business-transactions, business-offerings and partnerships.
From a marketing perspective, would it be beneficial to post my business-plan on ...
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how important is the .com TLD? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
what's more important - .com or name?
I am in the very early stages of what I hope to be a very profitable company. It is solely an online presence (think Digg, ...
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Require a contract of sale for a website
I'm selling a fully operating website and require a contract of sale for the UK. Can anyone recommend where I can find guidance or a template online?
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“Doing business as” registration – is it needed for an online only business?
Selling ad space on a website has no physical place of business except for the office, which might be the owner's home. Also, if registering a DBA would be needed, it would have to be all over the ...
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Huge Dilemma: Leave or Delete section in website
I have a huge dilemma, I launched a dog lover community/store/vet chat/information/directory website in Mexico and for the Spanish speaking community. It was launched 7 months ago and it's starting to ...
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How to find a way to help translating the site with multi-language?
The user interface for my site is multi-language supported. But some of words are just translated from Google. But they phrases are inaccurate.
I want to know if there are any online services or ...
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What issues should consider before updating my company website?
I'm working on an update to my company's website. Mostly it's just to freshen up the look. I'm pretty happy with the organization.
I'm planning to hire someone but I figured there were probably a ...
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Why does a web startup need millions on VC capital?
One of the great benefits of the web application business is that startup costs are generally fairly low compared to brick and mortar businesses. Web hosting is getting cheaper and programming costs ...
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Selling a small project that got big
I have a possible opportunity to sell a small web application that started as a personal project and got a significant amount of press. The company that may buy it would benefit from owning the site ...
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Use of copyrighted brand images On commercial website
I can't seem to find any exact language on using a company's copyrighted logos on a website. I am going to make a website for a business who distributes products related to a large soda company. ...
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Initial funding for Server cost
I'm nearing completion of my website. I need advice on how i would go about server costs? I haven't got the type of money to pay for a good dedicated/VPS server for high traffic. Should i go about ...
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One or two companies
I am facing a dilemma:
Currently my mobile/web development start-up company is working on two non-profit projects, that may find an audience and therefore promote the company's name among mobile ...
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Do websites with pictures of people on the first page make the company look more “human”
Do websites with pictures of people on the first page make the company look more "human", therefore contributing to the success of the product or service the web site tries to promote?
Short story:
I ...
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Is marketing the most important thing?
I was reading about the creation of mingle2.com, and what struck me as curious is that at that time (in 2007) the online dating market was well on its way to being saturated (aside from niche areas of ...
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How to sell advertising-space on my website?
I have an idea for a website which I think will generate traffic. I want to put the material itself on the website but minimize taking care of the advertising which is how it's supposed to generate ...
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On launching new web application, build or campaign first?
I'm a software guy so the approach I tend towards is to build something which does at least some core functionality first before telling anyone about it, and refine it through usage.
But recently I ...
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is this ad revenue model accurate?
I'm setting up an ad-supported website and trying to work through the numbers. I came across this article that gives a model. Being a newb at advertising, I've got quite a few questions:
For CPM and ...
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How to get vendors to be on a coupon site
I'm woking on a startup where we will put coupon codes on our website and in return we will get 3% of the net revenue of that sale. My question is how could I get vendors on this website? I don't ...
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Is this equity split unfair?
Ok, so I'm a developer. I was approached the other week by a friend who had an idea for a website that he wanted to make, and he came to me because a) we know each other, and b) I've given him useful ...
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EU domain to start a business. Good idea?
This is my first question here,
I am going to start a business, but as you know it's not easy to find a good domain .com (if you don't want pay hundreds or thousands $).
I have found a good domain, ...
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How to start a web development/design business without appearing too “corporate”?
These days, I've noticed that a lot of the one man (woman) shops all try to appear larger than life, i.e. go for a corporate look. I find that given how Social Media has progressed, this isn't a very ...
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What type of developers to hire for outsourced development?
I'm trying to build a minimum viable product SaaS website as a proof of concept, and wanted to know what type of developers I should be looking for if using an outsourcing website like odesk / vworker ...
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What qualifies as a “tech” startup? [closed]
I hear the words "tech startup" thrown around a lot when talking about various sorts of online businesses, apps, social networks, etc.
I know this question seems vague but I really haven't been able ...
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How much can an ad-driven website earn per click?
I am considering starting an ad-driven website. I'll probably start with Google AdWords. (Is there a better alternative?) What is the "typical" amount a website can earn per click or per impression? I ...
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Global or local? [closed]
I want to know in detail that if I publish a site in India,will it be globally available or will it be seen only in India? Again if it is available locally,what I should do to make it available ...
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Doing the coding on my own then outsourcing the design
I had a free couple of weeks, so I wrote the PHP script for a website that I had in mind. To be honest, I am not the best - I am just an amateur. I have read a couple of books (o'reilly) and that is ...
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Webhosting solutions for a startup
We have a small business that needs a webhosting solution. We will probably be able to support the following:
Login to set up a shopping cart software (Magento most likely).
Unlimited bandwidth
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Which to show first: login or register screen or both?
I have a site for which I am working to improve user onboarding.
What happens now is that when a user does some action that requires him to be logged in, I make a jQuery popup come up telling him to ...
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Can I run a web-based Non-Profit Org while living abroad?
I want to register as a non-profit org., but I'm not sure how it'd work because I'm leaving in a couple months to work in Asia for a year or more.
My website is for international photography if that ...
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What are considered to be successful signup rates?
I am building a website. In my website I'd like my user to register.
Also I am planning to launch some very active Google Adsense advertisements, targeting my ads to the travelling field.
What is ...
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Monetizing a site that could be seen as doing charity work/sensitive niche?
I'm building a site and community around a particular disability which I have. I have a number of ideas that I'm sure will make the site a success in terms of getting visitors, but I'd also like to ...
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Is it normal to lose optimism when getting feedback on a project?
I've been working on a web app for 4 months, and did some usability testing with about 10 people today, with mixed results.
Some people said they hated my design, others had no comment about it, ...
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What do I need to know about storing people's money in accounts for my website
I am developing a website where users will be able to transfer money to their account on the website. They'll eventually be spending some money and withdrawing money back into their accounts original ...
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Where to look for inspiration when designing product/company website?
To begin with, let me say that "hire a designer" is not really an answer. Problem is, I will still have to evaluate and accept or reject whatever he or she creates. Personally I would go with a ...
