Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flooded in. "We realized people liked sitting on the computer buying things, and that's what got us to go big time," says Spremulli. He invested $3,900 with Web consultant Blacksheep blacksheep3d.com and two years ago set up www.norwalk music.com The website, which gives customers full credit-card access and calculates shipping and taxes, now generates 26% of the company's $1.5 million in annual sales and caters to customers as far away as Egypt...
...version of an Internet browser such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer is released, upgrade your site so that new users have an easy time finding your virtual door. Don't go too heavy on graphics; the more complicated a website, the longer it takes to access it. "As soon as people have to download, they disappear," says Mark Bozzini, CEO of LinkExchange, an online marketing-services provider based in San Francisco...
GENERAL WEBSITES These are the most comprehensive websites, with links to dozens of specialized resources. A $ sign indicates a fee for access or membership...
...find immigrants who entered the U.S. under assumed names during the exclusionary period (1882-1943), when interrogation records show only adopted names, visit www.nara.gov/regional/findaids/chirip.html There you can search cemeteries to find ancestors' true surnames. For limited access to original Chinese family histories from the Ming and Qing dynasties at Columbia University's C.V. Starr East Asian Library, search www.columbia.cu/libraries/indiv/eastasia...
...INTEREST If you don't really care about ever walking into an actual bank building, consider online banks, which are now offering better rates and lower fees than many bricks-and-mortar versions, plus access to ATMs. Both NetBank, which last week said it had signed up 8,000 new customers in the first quarter (bringing its total to near 25,000), and Telebank offer about 3% on checking. That compares with an average of .95% at most U.S. banks and thrifts. Meanwhile, money-market accounts, many of which offer checking privileges, pay a healthy...