About Inc.com
Inc.com, the website for Inc. magazine, delivers advice, tools, and services, to help business owners and CEOs start, run, and grow their businesses more successfully. You'll find information and advice covering virtually every business and management task, including marketing, sales, finding capital, managing people, and much, much more.
Inc.com also includes the Inc. magazine archives, an exclusive area dedicated to the Inc. 500, and detailed information on Inc-sponsored events.
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Our Technology
We have re-engineered the latest version of Inc.com to be faster, more accessible, easier to navigate and easier to read. We are using a new method of presentation which involves delivering valid and web-standard XHTML for organizing our content and CSS to handle the site's design and layout. While most modern browsers support these web standards, older browsers may only display the raw content.
If your browser is having trouble displaying our site correctly, or for more information on recommended browsers and XHTML/CSS, please visit The Web Standards Project.
How we organize this site
The best way to navigate the site is by clicking the links in the top navigation bar. The top navigation bar showcases the nuts and bolts of our site. From here, you can navigate to a number of different resources, listed below:
- Magazine is the doorway to the Inc. magazine area of the site. The current issue online, Inc archives, articles from Inc 's respected columnists, and subscriber information are found here.
- Articles by Topic takes you to an exhaustive index of subject areas on Inc.com, such as Finance and Capital, Human Resources, Starting a Business, and Writing a Business Plan. It's the first step to finding the relevant content on a particular topic. Subsequent pages help you refine your search and focus on the articles that will be most helpful to you.
- How-To highlights the best content on Inc.com through carefully selected editorial packages on any number of business management issues, from motivating employees to cash management to finding capital.
- Tools is where you can find the more than 80 free tools we offer Inc.com members.
- Inc. 500 showcases the venerable businesses that have made the annual Inc. 500 list. Search past lists, read articles about the winners, and find out how to apply for the Inc. 500.
- Events leads you to information about Inc -sponsored seminars and conferences, including the annual Inc. 500 event.
- Services offers top-notch solutions from Inc.com's select business partners to help you run and grow your business.
- Search is accessible at the top of every page. Enter a keyword and click "Go." You can sort results by date, author, title and score as well as conduct more detailed advanced searches.
The lefthand navigation highlights popular how-to guides, services, special sections, and more:
- Tell Me About highlights our most popular guides -- compilations of Inc.com's best material, handpicked by the editors, on a particular business-management issue.
- Connect With houses Inc.com's Interactive Directory, which showcases vendors that have been selected from among hundreds of companies in their category and region. Here you can find and evaluate vendors easily and quickly.
- Help Me showcases specific solutions from Inc.com's partners and service providers.
- Newsletters listed in the side navigation are all of Inc.com's free E-mail newsletters. The Inc.com Connection will keep you informed about the best new features and content on the site. Additional newsletters zero in on specific operational business areas. You may subscribe or cancel a newsletter subscription at any time.
- Special Offer showcases deals on Inc.com's service-provider solutions.
Accessibility Features
Outlined below are ways to get the most out of Inc.com's new accessibility features.
Access keys
Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.
Most pages on this site define the following access keys:
- Access key 1 - Home page
- Access key 2 - Skips to the main content of the page
- Access key 3 - Search
- Access key 4 - Site Guide
Navigation aids
- All pages have rel=home, search, and contents links to aid navigation in text-only browsers. Netscape 6 and Mozilla users can also take advantage of this feature by selecting the View menu, Show/Hide, Site Navigation Bar, Show Only As Needed (or Show Always).
- All pages include a search box at the top of the page (access key 3).
Visual design
- This site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for its visual layout. This allows us to separate our content from it's presentation, decrease page load times, increase readability on all browsers and devices (PDAs, Phones, etc.) and make the site easier to maintain.
- If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
- Font sizing: At the top right of each page are three text sizing buttons. Use these to adjust the font size of the content on the page. Your selection will be remembered on future visits by storing a cookie.
RSS homepage feed
Our homepage headlines are available in an RSS feed (a standard, XML-based sydication format). Click the XML icon below to grab the feed URL.
