Three Ways to Build Your Ideal E-commerce Site
12/7/99, Eric Knorr, FSB Technology. Like any bricks-and-mortar store, a cyberstore needs a good location and a look and feel that engages customers. But remember that you're not just selling products but also building customer relationships, so you want to make sure that your site is secure and has access to site-traffic-analysis tools, e-mail, and other methods to develop that interaction.
www.pathfinder.com/fortunesb/articles/0,2227,434,00.html

ADVICE: Creating a Web site for a small business
11/9/99, PAUL TULENKO, Nando. Your Web site should contain the same basic information in the same easy-to-understand format. If it doesn't, you're wasting your money. Here are some thoughts...
www.techserver.com/noframes/story/0,2294,500055187-500090780-500326780-0,00.html

Too many Web sites poorly woven
11/18/99, John J. Fried, Inquirer Staff Writer. Businesses are launching Web sites as quickly as possible, hoping that a dot-com address will help them grab a share of a market expected to grow to $1.5 trillion by 2003. But all too many of the companies eager for Internet success fail, largely because they have no inkling of what a Web site should look like, what it should contain, or how it should treat potential customers, two experts who have studied e-commerce warned at a Comdex seminar.
www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Nov/18/business/ECOM18.htm

Amateur Web Sites - the Top Ten Signs
10/7/99, Charlie Morris, Web Developers Journal. So you're a beginning Webmaster. You don't have to advertise the fact. If you're a dog, nobody will know, but if you're an amateur, everyone will know - at least if you pull any of the boners listed here.
webdevelopersjournal.com/columns/abc_mistakes.html

In Praise Of Plain Web Sites
10/8/99, Michael Fischler, ClickZ. Here's the real truth: In the business-to-business world (which is what the Internet is now and really always will be about), nobody cares what your site looks like. If they did, do you think the great commerce sites of our times - Cisco, Marshall, Dell, Amazon and others - would have such plain looking sites?
gt.clickz.com/cgi-bin/gt/cz/cz.print.me.html?user=ffffffffffff&article=805

A Fool for a Client!
10/1/99, Judy Vorfeld, InternetDay. Problems expressing yourself? Have people visited your site, then said, "Um, it's interesting, but I'm not sure what you really do"? How can this happen when you have an analytical, focused mind? You've helped others create better Web site because you could spot strengths and weaknesses. What's missing?
www.internetday.com/archives/100199.html

The 3-Minute Web Site
10/8/99, Cameron Crouch, PC World. These days, everyone wants a Web site, but not everyone wants to take the time to learn the graphics tools you need to create one. ZY.com, unveiled at Internet World here this week, offers free applications that make it easy to create graphical Web pages and store files online.
www.pcworld.com/shared/printable_articles/0,1440,13191,00.html

Web Sites in Need
10/8/99, Eileen Smith, PC World. That's a simple mantra, but one that bears repeating if you're craving online applause, according to Web designers Vincent Flanders and Michael Willis. Flanders even wrote the book on it, aptly titled Web Pages That Suck. He presented his philosophy with Willis, the president of Willis Design Studios, on Thursday at the Internet World conference.
www.pcworld.com/shared/printable_articles/0,1440,13195,00.html

Build Traffic Through Good Site Design
9/27/99, Charlie Morris, Internet.com. Too many Web site owners concentrate on ways to drive visitors to the site, without giving enough thought to what happens when they get there. The way your site is designed and laid out has a huge impact on the amount of traffic you can build and maintain.
wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/Design/Build/

Browser Sniffing
8/25/99, Bruce Stewart, Web Tools.Smelled any good browsers lately? The term "browser sniffing" refers to the practice of determining a website visitor's browser make and version number, and possibly any installed plug-ins.
www.webtools.com/story/browsers/TLS19990823S0001