Article: Not all sites created equal: Colorado Springs' Web presence lags compared to other cities

Authors of "how to succeed in business" books used to remind their readers that any firm's most important employee was not the boss, but the receptionist; not the manager, but the cashier; not the suits at corporate, but the switchboard operator.

And the most important ad a business could place was in the yellow pages, since that's how people found you.

The message was simple and telling: the public face of your business is your business.

But the world has changed. Switchboard operators are long gone, and the yellow pages are a legacy technology.

Like it or not, a business is likely to be judged from a digital perspective, and a big factor in that determination is a Web site.

But what if ...

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