Put Your Office on the Internet

The marketing guy walks into your office and says, "We need to get on the Internet now! Our competitors have just put up their own Web site! When can you have it done?"

If you haven't faced this situation yet, you soon will. Almost every business in America will soon have its own World Wide Web site. Web sites will be as standard as business cards. Industry analysts predict 160,000 Windows NT-based Web servers will be sold in 1996. If you combine the hardware and software represented by this figure, you're talking about an emerging $2 billion market opportunity.

In our Focus section this month, Windows NT Magazine starts you on the path to creating your own Web presence: nothing fancy, mind you, just your basic black-and-white "business card." We've provided two levels of Web development--quick and complete. The Web Site Quick Path lists the steps required to quickly create your own Web site--your first "Hello World" program on the Internet. The Web Site Complete Path shows how to create a Web site with a solid foundation for continued Web development.

As we continue our WebDev series in future issues, we'll explore database connectivity, secure transactions, electronic cash (e-cash), order entry, multimedia, and other advanced features of Web development. See you on the Internet!