DicksonMedia

I have been evaluating my Ubuntu 10.04 installation for the past week now. I have been dabbling in ubuntu since ver 8 but only recently have I really gotten into it. And it would be a lie to say I am pleasantly surprised.

I was scared to partition my trusted Vista laptop because I didn’t want to mess it up and then be vistaless, but I found that installing ubuntu via Wubi (which installs ubuntu like any other windows application and only adds the ubuntu boot up int the windows MBR (master boot record)) was a breeze. Only problem is this kind of an install has a performance reduction compared to installing ubuntu on its own partition.

So now am on to the next task of finding suitable replacements for my windows apps

I have been meaning to write this post a little later, when I was finally ready to, but I think events are passing me by and the context of this post will be lost. While I was re-designing my and thinking about the online takeover I want to perpetrate, it dawned on me that I have been very busy online over the past 10 years.

I counted at least 30 different sites, a handful of event flyers and other custom work. Which got me thinking. What does it take to be successful online?

My principle has always been, you have to have a successful “Brick and Mortar” business first before you even venture online. The internet is used to grow your business not to start it. That is unless you have a really good plan about your “internet take over”.

It’s never been my job to create that plan for my clients, even though I do try to guide them in the process. I am the web professional, with all the tactics and gimmicks, but in the end, its your business and your responsibility. My responsibility is to make and maintain as many successful websites as I can.

So in my next series I am going to catalog, the websites I have created over the years, those that have succeeded and those that have failed. And some of my strategies going forward.

I have always wanted to have a mobile version of my website as well as that of my clients. I have been a big fan of the Iphone since it came out two years ago and am proud of owner of Generation One Iphone. That said I have dabbled in the safari webkit, made a few test mobile sites, but now I am finally all the way Mobile. Check it out on your favorite mobile device