General surveys undertaken on blogs and bloggers shows a rising trend in blogging. A parallel platform for literary endeavor, blogs are overthrowing traditional journalistic norms. Publishing of news and views no longer remains privilege of an elite minority. Anybody and everybody is free to get in touch and explore writer within himself. The anamorphic nature of human soul is best reflected in blogs. http://alphablog.rediffblogs.com/2005_20_03_alphablog_archive.html

A survey in United States brought out a startling fact 30% of surveyed people read blogs. Also, 52% of surveyed people advocate equal journalistic rights and freedom for blogs. And most striking fact is that 31% of surveyed people revealed that they found blogs to be more credible than newspapers.

Identify Your Internet Business- Ask yourself why customers would come to your web site. Is it an extension of your bricks and mortar store? Or will it be a stand-alone operation? What can you provide that no one else can? Of what value is your site to customers? Even if you don't sell online, you need to answer these questions. Customers don't always come to a web site to buy products. Sometimes they come for information. Tell them about products you sell, give them your store hours and phone number, provide a map so they can find your shop. Even though you haven't sold them anything, you've given them value. Customers will come back to your site if you provide value.

Create a well designed, easy-to-use, fast, and functional web site- Your web site should have a clean, straightforward design. Customers don't like busy, cluttered web sites. A customer should be able to find a product in two mouse clicks. Any more and they feel like they're being led through a maze. Or worse, they may lose interest and leave.

Keep graphics and text simple and small. Animation and sound files can be interesting, but don't force customers to view these items in order to buy a product.

There are many options for managing orders. The most popular way to manage orders is through shopping cart technology. The customer goes through site and picks items s/he wants to buy. At check out, s/he fills in billing details and purchases items. Building a shopping cart requires programming knowledge or a software package that can manage behind scenes work.

Can customers pay online with a credit card? They increasingly like convenience of this. The order is placed quickly and they receive an instant confirmation receipt. However, your store must be enabled to accept online credit card purchases. This requires both a merchant account that accepts online orders and an electronic gateway that facilitates transaction.