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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Seed Capital to Live On, Do I Pay Taxes?
I've been working on a startup since Jan. 1, 2009. To keep me alive (physically on a ramen diet) my parents give me $1-$2k per month. My company is set up as an LLC and my parents would like to ...
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How did stackoverflow become a success when most of its predecessors/clones are not?
There are hundreds of stackoverflow clones, but none as successful as the original.
What is the secret behind the huge success it has got?
Is it the initial pool of developers who answered the ...
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What are best practices for privacy at a web startup?
Beyond the obvious steps -- having a privacy policy, encrypting stored data, supporting https logins and Tor -- what are other best practices for a web startup that wants to do privacy right?
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Anyone have experience with usertesting.com? Remote user testing services?
We are looking to do some usability testing on our site. Any experiences with either usertesting.com specifically or other similar services? You pay them to have users test your site, record their ...
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Usability: Looking for your thoughts on Categories and Tags
That's right. I often have mixed emotions on this one. Let's say we have some type of site that profiles different items. For example, the latest thing over the past few years is tagging... and it's ...
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Website launch strategy with
My partner and I would like to lunch a new marketplace for products that, for obvious reasons, we can't disclose at this point. We don't have any patent or proprietary IP to raise the entrance ...
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How to find a programer/partner to my idea
I believe I have a great idea and want to make a website for that. The problem is that i can't find any CMS which fits my needs and my capabilities to develop myself the PHP MySQL solution are very ...
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How to post a request for site review on Hacker News?
A few people have suggested in different answers and on a couple of different blog posts I've read recently that it is a good idea to put your beta site on Hacker News, for example:
If you have a ...
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What is best website for SMB for SEO? WordPress or static site?
I have come across a question by a local business. When it comes to SEO, is there a difference between a website built on WordPress and one using any other means (static pages, website templates, ...
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Monetize website without spending money
I have made a website http://www.humanisms.co.uk, it is similar in concept to other very popular websites that are user-content orientated, ie. FML, TFLN, Sickipedia, TrueLad...etc.
Now, all its cost ...
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Any examples of web business's spawned from a business person's idea and put into action by a technical cofounder?
While many people talk about the new paradigm of outsourcing technical skills to India or China, there is much derision among technical blogs and people about business people getting into the job of ...
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Which websites successfully make money just from ads?
I'm wondering how many websites are actually successful at making money purely off ads. Clearly the search engines do, but apart from them can you point out specific sites which have successful ...
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Best way to conduct a private beta of an application?
I have an app which I'm looking to start in private beta testing soon, but I'm needing an application/cms to allow me to manage it (i.e. hand out codes, provide tickets, help centre). Any ideas? ...
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Design template for a SaaS website
Where can I purchase a professional looking, Web 2.0 styled template for a subscription service website. I'd need the PSD, the HTML, images and the styles.
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Suggestions on sites for critiquing websites
I am looking for sites which enable users to give feedback or critiques on any sites for free.
Or for site owners to solicit feedback on their sites for site design and usability? Should not be fee ...
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What effect(s) does Google's Panda 2.5 update have on new websites in the SERP?
I recently launched 3 websites (within the past 7-10 months) that had been steadily increasing in the rankings on Google search up until this past weekend, when I noticed a huge drop across most of my ...
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What software or development tools do you use to create and maintain your website?
I'm looking for more great software tools (than the ones listed below that I already use) to not only create and run a website, but to verify and maintain it. All our websites run on Unix servers with ...
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I spent thousands of dollars creating a website. Now what?
What do I do next with a website I developed?
A little background. A few years back, I discovered there is no web directory of free email newsletters. However, virtually every organization of any ...
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Charging different rates for different services?
As a freelancer I am putting together a strong online portfolio/website to offer my services.
I am putting the usual things in (blog/about/portfolio etc.) but I was thinking of creating a few pages ...
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Should I open up my app's data so anyone can use it?
I've built a site for climbers - a worldwide, user editable guidebook for climbers.
Recently, I've been toying with the idea of making all of the data that has been submitted to my site open ...
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I have a great idea, a working site, and no clue where to go!
So like others, I had a great idea, built the site and it functions very well. There is no other site out there that does this, and it's truly a very useful site.
Now here is the problem, I have a ...
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Would I be able to sell this website I built?
I've been building a site for 2 years now, and am about to launch it, but the problem is I have lost all interest in doing anything with it.
It is a social networking/review site in a very small ...
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Strategies for getting initial customers
At last I have gotten my SAAS product to a state where I can take on some customers. I believe as-it-stands it offers significant advantages over existing solutions.
I am finding it incredibly hard ...
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Looking for .NET CMS [closed]
I'm looking for .NET content management system.
I've done some research and found a lot of software (like Telerik's Sitefinity or DotNetNuke), but I don't want to make wrong decision. Please advice.
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Should I get a .co or .com?
I'm currently deciding if I should get a domain name of my 1st choice but with a .co (instead of a .com) or if I should get a less preferred domain name with a .com (because my 1st choice of .com is ...
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Selling a high traffic mobile site, any adivce?
We are looking to sell our business. We are a high traffic mobile site (16+ million unique visitors/month). What is the best way to get acquired? Should we use a business broker to facilitate this ...
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Most probable “.com” replacement for startups in the near future?
The most desirable generic top-level domain ".com" seems becoming less and less affordable for startups which cannot receive sufficient funding at early stages. The price of a decent ".com" name is ...
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What is the best web site chat provider to use? [closed]
I want to add a chat capability to my web site. Wondering recommendations from folks. Looking for something relatively inexpensive and relatively easy to implement but want it to be functional.
It ...
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I have a site and a company. How do I actually put the site as owned by this company?
Essentially, a site is just something independent that lives on the Web. How do I actually associate that site as being protected under legal liability of my LLC company?
Does it just happen ...
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Equity share in product not company
thanks for taking the time to read this, any advise is welcomed.
A friend of mine is trying to get launch a new piece of software. As we work well together and he wants to keep initial development ...
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How realistic is it to fund grad school with a web start-up?
A little background first: I just got accepted to a one year master's program in chemical engineering at my school, but I need to find a way to come up with roughly $20,000 - $30,000 over the next ...
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Why did my site vanish from Yahoo and Bing search results?
I have a website that sells a software product. My site used to be high up in search results on Google, Yahoo and Bing. Stupidly, I didn't do much with the site for about two months. It slipped in ...
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Tapping into China with a social website
I have the personal understanding, the ability to restructure my site so it is appealing to the Chinese audience and enough expat Chinese friends to test the hell out of my startup website.
What I ...
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How to protect myself from uncommitted co-founders
Two of us came together to work on an idea for a web startup. We end up killing the initial product and a third person joined. A new product is built and launched.
It happens that I'm the technical ...
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How important is the quality of the website?
I'm planning to launch on iPhone app. In doing so, I am also starting my business; whether personal or LLC etc is still undetermined.
I am in the process of creating a WordPress website for this ...
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How can I make my site more social / involved for posters?
I've just created a new site which allows users to post content around their local area and any activities.
As it has just been launched there is not much in the way of content for those people who ...
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Cost Analysis for hosting up a web application
I am in the process of planning a venture related to a social web application targeted towards a very specific user group.
I need your help to do cost analysis of hosting my web application (on the ...
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Screencasting - camtasia, IshowU, others?
I have a new site and I need to make a quick video tutorial for new users.
The debate in the past has seemed to revolve around using either Camtasia or IshowU. But which one do I go with? Camtasia ...
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Best resources for learning Wordpress? [closed]
I am in the process of (re)learning Wordpress. General searches return a plethora of resources for learning, but it's difficult to cut through the clutter. What resources do folks here recommend?
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What makes a Successful Web Site Launch?
What are the 5 must-do basic things to have a shot at being marginally successful on a first day web site launch? The measure of success is defined (in our case) as at least having:
1) 50000 hits on ...
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Where to draw the line between non-profit and profit project
I have this project, where I'm about to create a political debate website. The election time in my country has just passed so there are quite a few people with questions for the politicians, and it ...
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How do you get a copyright on your web pages?
If I were to release a web app what is the procedure to procuring a copyright on it?
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How do I structure a payment plan for my website?
I plan on making my website a paid one and have a question about structuring the payment plan. Think of the website as an ecommerce site selling very low ticketed items (as low as $0.05). Since ...
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What is the process required/recommended to convert a website into an LLC?
Given that I have a website that is making revenue, live in California, and would like it to be claimed under an LLC, what is the process to accomplish this? Should I be forming a sole proprietorship ...
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Do 3rd party seals like Truste or Verified increase signup/sales?
Can anyone point me to a blog post with hard metrics? I'm referring to seals like this: https://store.truste.com/privacy_services_aff/
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Looking for a wordpress template for a website? [closed]
I am looking for a WordPress template to use specifically for purposes of building a website for a consulting firm. Not a blog. Most of the templates I find are designed for blogs. Do you guys know of ...
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Legal question + website copy protection?
My work partner and I have just finished to built a new community website about sport.
We also have created a Private Limited Company in UK (with the help of an accountant).
We both don't know ...
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Considering hiring advisors/consultants for my startup website
How should they be paid; what is an average fee for a professional...non professional?
I really don't know how much time or useful info they will provide so is giving them a percentage of ownership a ...
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How much should I expect to receive per website (for web design)?
I am a student who wants to start a small web design business with a few of my friends. Our clients will be local small businesses (e.g. family-run businesses). We're not expecting them to request ...
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Partnership Gone Bad
For the past 6 months or so I have been working on a project with 2 partners. Here's the breakdown:
Partner 1: Finance, marketing, sales, legal
Partner 2: Product dev, design, branding
Me: Tech, ...
