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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Create website promotion video
How can I create a promotional video explaining "How to use my website"
a) It should show the screen movements of my cursor explaining different features of my website.
b) There should be a ...
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How much can you trust website worth value calculators?
While bulding my Business Plan for my future Website, I am trying to collect some relationships between traffic and online advertising monetization.
I know that we cannot really trust numbers given ...
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Paypal vs Online payment systems
I've been googling and googling, but can't seem to find a clear answer.
I'm pondering on just using paypal payment system (which is really simple and fast) on my site or using on site payment ...
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Initial startup sequence for an international dating website
I'm developing a niche dating website that is in its pre-alpha stage.
As for the initial launch, I have a couple of theories and questions.
For the very first time, I thought it might be good to
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Do you go for the Quality or Quantity approach in your social media activities?
How many social network profiles should I have and in how many groups should I participate? What is your approach?
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Is Google Sites a threat for websites' developers?
What do you think?
I tried Goggle Sites today,
1) do you know how long it has been out for?
2) do you think is major threat for thousands of businesses that devlop websites (and they don't even make ...
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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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Domain name ending with “ster”
I am looking for a domain name for a new website and the one ending with "ster" (as in friendster) is available.
Are these domain names recommended or are they so 90s?
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On what should I pay attention when letting someone design my website?
So I have an idea for a new website. I worked it out into great detail but unfortunately I cannot design it myself (only have some basic html knowledge). At first my plan was to learn and design it on ...
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How can valuation of a company be measured based on page views?
I was wondering, if a site has lets say 1 million page views per month, how much does that make it worth?
Similarly, for signed up users, lets say, a thousand signed up users - how much does that ...
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Can I have two different websites using the same PayPal account?
I have one site up that is struggling to find a MVP and getting dangerously close to running out of cash.
I have PayPal set up under that entity. However, now, I'd like to create a separate website ...
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One stop shop for start-up tools and resources?
I'm looking for a website that has all the tools and resources one might need to start a company. Anything from business plan templates to legal docs to reviews on potential vendors (e.g. who should I ...
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Is making your contract viewable online before purchase a good idea?
As part of being transparent, we're thinking of putting our contract up online in our services section. The idea is that people would be able to have a look, question us in advance, and overall be ...
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Should I create Company or Product website?
For a startup company with 1 product which website will be more beneficial? Should I create website that concentrates on a product or my company?
My software targets transportation/trucking industry ...
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Is it a bad idea to have a direct credit card buying option on my website?
I'm preparing a digital product that I'm going to sell in the days to come. I am a programmer, so I don't have any problems in preparing my website and even setting Paypal to handle my payment system.
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Website security
Last Saturday my site received an unusually high volume of brute force attacks. Yep, those darn teens from Western Europe or smart scripts from academic towns in Siberia, trying tirelessly to break ...
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Heard of Any Good Social Media Business Growth Stories?
I'm curious if anyone has any examples to share of local businesses that have grown using social media alone.
Good examples:
Real Estate Agent facebook success
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How many ecommerce websites are out there?
Our company is providing a service to ecommerce websites, and we're struggling to find reliable stats on how large our potential base is.
Does anyone know where to obtain a reasonable estimation of ...
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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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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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Importance of Keywords in Search Engine Ranking
When you think of executing SEO plans how do you measure your success? There are lots of ways in which you can calculate your success ratio and can check whether you are moving in the right direction ...
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Logo size on Website for Branding
I am currently designing the website for a new startup. I have 2 options (so far) for the size of the logo.
Put it in the same spot as the "StackExchange" dropdown at the top of this page. It ...
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How to motivate experts to contribute to a forum?
We are launching a real estate website with some forums too. We need experts (lawyers, architects, etc.) to contribute to our forums for some first line advice. How would you attract such experts to ...
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whats the link between unique visitors and estmated revenue?
I know this is one of those 'how long is a piece of string' type questions. Yes, I also know it depends on the market segment/space etc, etc.
However, I still need to ask this questions, as I need to ...
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How much do publishers typically pay to run Google DFP (DoubleClick)?
I'm investigating ad serving software. Google has a product, acquired from DoubleClick, called DFP. They've divided it up into a free "small business" version (too small for me) and a premium DFP ...
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Would you buy (small) webapps?
I'm not sure about my position on buying and selling webapps. This comes to mind due to the recent 250k sale of retweet.
What I'm thinking is about the practicality of it all: content sites and blogs ...
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Topic suggestions for software developer's conference?
I help book topic sessions for the annual Software Industry Conference which will be held this year in Dallas, TX. The conference targets both beginner and experienced Micro ISVs, and internet ...
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Strategies for finding potential customers for a tiny app
Background: I used to work for a software consulting firm. For obvious reasons, one thing that was critical to both our company and our customers was keeping track of the time spent on specific tasks. ...
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Do I want to pull clients to my company's facebook page or its web site?
I am writing an iOS app which I hope to publish in the next month or so. In parallel, I will set up a web site and a Facebook page for my company. The purpose of these sites is to show other apps I've ...
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Split main website and core application
I have question about some organizational issue. Is a good idea to split my main information website (home, about, contact, ...) and my core application service to domain and subdomain?
For example:
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Complete Rookie Here. I Need Advice On Where to Begin From Only an Idea
I'm a complete web/entrepreneur rookie with an idea that I believe in passionately and don't know where to begin. I know for a fact that my idea is unique and will fill a huge hole in the market and ...
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legal issues releasing my personal website
I've been trying to make my personal website for a long time, and now that is almost done, I've been investigating about some legal details that I must solve in order to release my website, based on ...
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Monetizing a webapp
I am building a website that solves word games (scrabble, wordfeud, angry words etc.). It does it better than any websites I have seen.
I am thinking about how to make money on it (I have three ...
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from hobby to the real thing
I started a few years ago a few blogs with the format of a directory with some business listed on it. It started by using all free stuff (free blog services, hosting, templates, images etc etc) today ...
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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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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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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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seeding content for a web 2.0 site
so you've built a great web 2.0 system....the system works great....but you need to seed it with content so that it reaches that critical mass....the question is how do you do it?
so...what are some ...
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Crowd Sourcing/Social networks: What drives user?
I am working on the business model for a web start-up idea.
The premise of the idea involves feedback generation for a brand/customer service, crowd-sourcing and social networking among ...
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Need simple pre-launch website to attract mgmt. team, investors, and co-marketing alliances
I am looking for a simple website solution for my pre-launch (and pre-funding) start-up to do the following:
Introduce the business without totally giving the concept away.
Have a web address as a ...
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Business website founder mugshots
On many business websites, the "about us" tab has some photos of senior staff together with short biographies.
This question is about those photos. What makes a good founder mugshot? What does ...
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Pricing ADs ( BuySellAds )
My startup got approved for the BuySellAds program. I setup ad-space on my website on 3rd April. I got two advertisers on 7th April. The ad-space is getting 70k ( according to the BSA algorithm ) ...
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Should I createa new site or add as a feature to the existing website?
I currently have a website in which I can add a feature that integrates with Twitter. I can add this as one of the features for a premium plan. Alternately, I can create a brand new website and have ...
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Is there a company that you can turn over your web site and let it run the biz for you and split the profit?
We spent quite a bit of money and time building a great IT career Site.
In the meantime, another opportunity that's more lucrative with less competition came up.
So we are looking to have the Career ...
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Should testimonial negatively reference a competitor?
A new customer told me my product "Does an excellent job and handles our data much faster than ." The customer said I could use this as a testimonial on my website, but should I remove the name of the ...
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“Segmenting” visitors to my sales website
I have made a simple sales web page to generate leads for my new business.
One problem I think I have is that the current web page tries to be "all things to all visitors", when in actuality I know ...
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Can I register as ABCsoft in Canada if there is an ABCsoft in Australia?
I was going to register my company name as "ABCsoft", but I discovered ABCsoft.com is already registered. Can I register as ABCsoft in Canada if there is an ABCsoft in Australia?
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So work for myself or contract?
Good Morning all,
Just recently came across this site and have to be honest, this has me PUMPED! I am a computer / Network Support guy and have been seems like forever. I have always wanted to own ...
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Selecting a Pricing structure-How to offer free membership?
We are nearing the launch of our website which is a wholesale marketplace and network, which hosts transactions between Buyers and Sellers. We are deciding between two offers for a period of free use ...
