I recently received the following question:
Do you have any advice for a beginner starting in the web business?
I have quite a bit I'd like to share on this so I figured I'd write a post on it.
A few days ago I copied a Drupal site up on a GoDaddy server for somebody and noticed something immediately. My freaking sites were running REALLY slow on my server. This shared $10/mo GoDaddy server was outperforming my beefed up dedicated box hosted at a really good company by like 10x. How could this be? I wasn't quite sure, but it made me realize that Drupal sites really could run fast and I needed to find out what I was doing wrong.
The Internet is one of mankind's most advanced form of business currently available. It is the most scientific and demands the most savvy of businessman. I say this because in order to operate successfully on the Internet you must be more in-line with truth and the universe than pretty much any other business, relatively speaking.
Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion. MSN puts an offer in on Yahoo for $44.6 billion.
I mean, yeah, Yahoo is a great company and all but why does MSN keep missing these obvious things like YouTube? Wouldn't it have been much cheaper to buy YouTube and at least stay in the game?
I get the feeling that MSN is poorly managed, greedy and just doesn't "get" the Internet still, after all these years.
I should consider becoming a salesman for Drupal because I am always talking about how good it is. But it really is. If you are not using Drupal you have 2 options:
Although suicide may sound appealing you're probably better off just downloading Drupal. Once you download Drupal here are some key things that make it so powerful:
Why are there so many people that can build a web site, but so few that can actually make money from it? Why is it that there are all these web development firms out there who specialize in building web sites, but once your site is built you are left with a liability?
Most people simply do not treat the Internet like a business. They think it's some magical place where you can throw anything together and you will make a fortune.
I usually don't post about tech stuff but ever since purchasing the iPhone I can not resist. Reasons why the iPhone is better than your phone:
I hooked up my Gmail account to it super easy and now I can check my email while walking to the restroom! You rule iPhone!
Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress are the 3 most popular content management systems according to Alexa and most webmasters. They all have their own blend of features and options that allow for extremely powerful and well-built web sites. With such feature rich systems it is important to understand the different aspects of each one to help with making a better choice as to which CMS fits you.
It should be noted that this chart is written from a web developers perspective and I am fairly experienced with creating sites with a CMS or without. I have used all 3 systems for developing web sites, but strictly stick to Drupal now as it allows me to built the most powerful sites the easiest.
I hate to break it to designers and all the artistic people out there, but if you want to make money online your site is going to be primarily focused on usability and delivering content and answers ASAP. Sure there are a few things where artistic elements may be seen on the web like Flash intros, banners and some images, but the underlying core of information and content structure is a very non-artistic thing.
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