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Finding the best host for your company's Web site is one of the most important steps when taking your business online.

After completing a sale with an online merchant, your personal information is now in their hands. Now a well-known offline consumer protection group is offering a solution to online privacy concerns.

Businesses usually hesitate before taking the plunge with a new technology, as they should. No one wants to be left holding the bag when a faddish technology flames out. XML is moving beyond cutting-edge into the realm of business usefulness.

Follow these seven steps before you start asking potential hosts about the price of their services.

Shutting down a Web site is not a decision any Web hosting company or ISP makes lightly. But as the Internet grows, the debate over what is acceptable content and what is not will grow as well, and Web hosting companies may become caught in the middle.

Looking for a way to go online without busting your budget? Read these tips from experienced online businesses, on how not to overpay for a Web site while still getting value.

If your Web visitors can't find anything on your site, they'll give up and go elsewhere. Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen offers heuristic evaluation as a low-cost method for designing a usable Web site.

For your online storefront, having an easy-to- navigate site with simple purchasing ability is important, but is only effective if people are actually visiting your site. Here's how to turn visitors into customers and customers into repeat customers.

Cookies are emerging as the hottest new online payment and targeting tools. But if misused by marketers, they can alienate prospects. So use them thoughtfully.

It takes work to figure out exactly what you want to put online. So, here some tips and tricks in getting your web site up and running.