I think these are greatly underestimated. Sure, I'm not going to be too well liked by many businesses that rely on big website design and construction jobs for their living, but I think most people could do well to start with a business card website first, before going all out with a massive online structure that might only be seen by your employees and their family, if that.

A business card website is a great first step in getting your business online. It means absolute minimal investment and allows you to test the market and help build up your customer base before spending large bucks where they may go to waste. At least this way, you can test, fine tune and then present the public (your customers!) with your new revised flashy online estate.

A business card website can be as simple as a digitised scan of, you guessed it, your business card! But hang on, why waste the time in that extra step? Your graphic designer (if you used one) would already have your logo image in electronic format, after all, they did the design and layout for you! It's probably in a file format used by their graphics program, but just ask for it to be saved or exported as JPG or PNG. Then you can use any basic web editor to import it into a page, adjust the META tags, and upload to your hosting provider!

Another thing to note is, it doesn't have to be a static page.