Now if you want to start a new business these days you sure have a few good examples on how your website should look like. Here is a roundup with our favorite small biz web designs. Have fun!
Mail Chimp
We Make Email Marketing Easy & Fun For Over 80,000 Users
Coda
Text editor + file transfer + svn + CSS + Terminal + Books + More = Whoah. Welcome to Coda. Grow beautiful code
Skype
Free calls, video calls and instant messaging over the internet. Plus great value calls to phones anywhere in the world
37 Signals
A Better Way To Work. Over 3 million people use our web-based apps to get things done the simple way
Wistia
Wistia is a platform for video marketing, sales, and collaboration. Share and track video with prospects, customers, and employees
Sugar Sync
Get all of your files on-the-go, instantly and securely from any Mac, PC, or mobile device. No extra effort. No extra baggage
The Invoice Machine
It’s beautiful and simple-to-use interface makes producing professional looking invoices a very pleasant experience
Mint
Mint is an extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity
Get Satisfaction
Get Satisfaction brings customers and company employees together to make things better for everyone
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Serving 1 billion + impressions across 1,000 websites per month
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Nicholas Molnar July 3, 2009
Skype is not even close to a small business. It was sold for 1.7 Billion a few years ago, remember? To eBay, a truly huge business.
Raj Mehta October 20, 2011
Yeh Skype is now not close to small business anyways nice collection of websites
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mao July 3, 2009
^^^^ I was thinking that ^^^^^ but they are inspiring designs though :)
ngassmann July 3, 2009
Is it just me or do the majority of the sites follow the exact same “standard” layouts. They all look great, but they are almost all very similar. Big intro box with 3 or 4 equal sized areas below. Jus’ sayin’. :P
Mahallo Media July 4, 2009
But other websites are small with confidence.
widi July 4, 2009
i think we must have a good strategy to succes in this project
Brant July 6, 2009
Interesting post. I think you should have focused on the successful elements used across these sites.
Chelsey Gourgaud July 10, 2009
Hum they all kind of look the same to me..
gonzoblog.nl July 14, 2009
Why are these websites a success …?
It’s quite obvious that the layout, or the ‘looks & feel’, of these websites is very boring and almost the same. So that will not be the big factor of success, … then what is?
Hoping to hear more about your vision/thoughts about this subject? Cheers & Ciao ….
Roomba July 22, 2009
80,000 users – damn, that’s one small business….
mlgreen8753 July 30, 2009
Yeah Skype is huge, but maybe it started out as a small business and went corporate. It happens often especially with smoothly run businesses that invests faithfully in advertising to grow it's customer base.
mlgreen8753 July 30, 2009
Good for these guys. With some smart advertising, these small businesses can take there businesses to the next level.
Tyler July 31, 2009
check out ours… http://www.atmediadesign.com
Thanks,
Tyler
Phil November 13, 2009
It is funny that you consider some of these “Small Business” like skype … wtf?
David Sullivan December 18, 2009
Check out ours
ryanfmc October 1, 2010
Some great work here and some websites I have not explored yet and will be soon.
Harold November 14, 2010
pretty poor list and you are really stretching to link them to a general theme. Shame.
Seth Ridley November 15, 2010
Yeah, these are all really samey to me, and not particularly interesting. Effective they may be, but in terms of originality they may as well be workign from the same template
Alex May 22, 2011
It is s not fair to the small business to list sites like Skype
James November 21, 2011
I agree. Skype shouldn’t be listed here. Check out our small business: http://www.soloago.com
Thanks,
James