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Since ELW is headquartered in Riverside, California we generally focus our attention on the local environment we see around us.  This is often the source for the best website ideas.  Let me throw a few observations out there:

1. Lawyers generally don’t have websites, and when they do they usually aren’t very good.  Some are terrible.
2. Lawyers charge serious money to get you out of serious problems.
3. Lawyers in your local area benefit from finding local clients.
4. Lawyers are experts on a subject where it is illegal for regular people to give advice.

So, the obvious approach to a lawyer website is for the lawyer to give advice on the site that will bring in new clients.  An even better idea is to create a site where lawyers provide the advice, and you make a profit! Making a decent website for dealing with legal advice would require a person who is motivated and honest, but the benefits could be extraordinary.  Contact ELW if you are interested in our help developing a website for lawyers.

What do you do when you have a cool website idea?  If you live near the Inland Empire in California, you need to contact ELW to make it a reality!  Although we are happy to help get your website idea off the ground no matter where you are, nothing beats the convenience of a free in-person consultation.  We are located in beautiful Riverside, California.  Even though it is raining this week, we will still be helping to get new web site ideas their start.

How much does a website cost?

• Most people don’t realize that a new website can be designed and ready for use for as little as a few hundred dollars.  You shouldn’t be worried about making your website idea into a slick nationwide brand just yet, but most web designers will charge you as though you are.  Keep it simple.  Your first idea might not be the one that makes you rich.  Save some money so you have some left for the next big idea.

How long does it take to make a website?

• Most websites can be ready in a less than a week, but that depends on how busy we are.  If we get so busy that it takes more than a week to put your website idea together, we will probably be hiring more designers immediately.  If you want us to program something that has never been done before, it might take longer.  We can’t make you a new search engine to compete with Google in a week for example.

What makes a good website idea?

• Anything you want to do on the internet that doesn’t exist, is a good website idea.  Even if the idea does already exist, it probably isn’t as good as it could be.  Many cool website ideas fall apart and are just taking up space on the internet.  Don’t be afraid to compete with an existing website if your idea is better!

How do I turn a website idea into reality?

• Contact ELW and we will answer any questions you have about getting a website made.  Don’t worry about protecting your website idea from copying.  We value your privacy greatly!  We have more ideas than we can possibly build.  That is why we give away free web site ideas every day on this blog.  Don’t be afraid to steal one of those ideas for yourself either!  We will gladly build the site for you.

6833 Indiana Avenue, Suite #208 is where you will find the most fantastic web design and development company in Riverside, California. If you need a website for your small business, you should come by and visit our office.

If you have a good idea for a money making website, we can help you get it off the ground.  We are always willing to discuss your idea with no obligations.

My tires looked a little low today, so I went looking for a gas station with an air pump.  I am willing to pay the 75 cents or whatever it costs to get air without the added hassle of going inside to get the attendant to turn on the air.

All the signs say that when purchasing fuel in California, the station must provide free air and water.

The problem is that the air pumps are always broken.  There is either a poorly attached hose, or it is missing.  Sometimes the entire trigger assembly is missing.  Is there a black market for these pieces of junk or something?  How is it that I can drive 5 miles, and 7 gas stations in a row all have defective air pumps?  I really want some feedback on this.

When I lived in Maryland I had the same problem, but I attributed it to the uncommon stupidity of the people there.  Is there a cult of morons out there that collect used gas station air pump parts?  It would be too daring to steal the whole pump, so I guess the logic is that they take a different piece each from gas station along their way.

Is it a coordinated system of sabotage by people who own stock in a company that makes air compressors?  I am seriously losing faith in humanity here.  Do people use the parts to make some sort of dope smoking apparatus?

I’m offering a special prize for whoever gives me the best answers.

Why are so many gas station air pumps defective?

What is the coolest thing to do with air pump parts?

Who do you need to kill to get free air in California?

ELW Software is a web development company in Riverside, Ca.  We have a very nice sign on the front door of our office, and another sign in our window facing Indiana Avenue. We are also listed on the building’s directory occupying suite #208.

We have a problem just about every day with a different bozo coming into our office looking all confused.  It is always the same thing: They come in looking stupid, then wander their way to our inner office and ask if this is a security company.

I think there is a problem with literacy in Riverside, and possibly the entire Inland Empire.  Maybe this stuff has infected the whole state of California, the nation, or even the world! When I go to Jack in The Box for lunch or breakfast, I usually go inside to get my food.  I do this because my power window doesn’t work on the driver door.  I just order the food for carry-out, and probably save gas this way too.  While I am waiting for the food, I wait around out of the way of the people who might want to order.  As I drink my soda and wait for my food, people keep asking me if I have already ordered. Of course I have!  That’s why I already have the soda!  Please, go to the counter and order.  Thank you for your politeness.

What does this story have to do with being a web designer and developer?  More than you might see at first glance actually.  We bought the sign on the door to keep these bums out after I saw one of them handcuffed by the police in our parking lot after I got him to leave our office.  No, I didn’t call the cops on him.  They probably followed him to the building.  I can imagine somebody suggesting that “at least people are coming to your office,” or “idiots need websites too.”

Is all traffic good?  Obviously not, but the whole problem of people walking around like zombies and not noticing anything important should be considered when designing a website!  The pagerank algorithm invented by Google estimates the quality of a website by finding the probability that a person clicking on links randomly will find your site.  It has been widely criticized, but look how good it has worked for Google.  Most people are very much like random-clicking zombies!

Here are some ideas for how a web designer can use this observation:

1. Leave a Trail of Zombie Candy! Zombies love clicking on interesting zombie-links.  Ever wonder why some blogs have more ads than actual text?  When given the choice between thinking of something new to look at or just clicking something on the page, zombies let you choose for them.
2. Don’t “Sell” to Zombies! Zombies don’t want what you are selling, but they do have money.  Zombies wander, and it is hard to get rid of them too.  If you have a site with tons of visitors, and none of them buy things, you are a winner!  Don’t forget that it is just as hard to get all the answers wrong on a true/false test.  Why not try putting pay-per-click ads on your site that have nothing to do with what you are selling?  Why is Google so obsessed with making adsense ads relevant?  It is a buyer-side bias, since the advertisers will pay more for clicks by interested people.  Zombies aren’t “interested people.”
3. Zombies can’t read! Web designers take notes: Zombies like pictures!  Zombies like porn, ring tones, celebrity gossip, and shiny things.
4. Zombies look for security! Zombies walk into software companies, past the signs, even after they themselves believe they are in the wrong place.  Telling them they are in the wrong place doesn’t work; they keep coming.  From now on when I see a zombie looking for security, I’ll greet them as though I’ve been waiting forever.  Thank god you are here, I need you to buy this shiny thing or the world will come to an end.

Yes, future articles will include instructions on web design for vampires.  Be a patient zombie.

Can anybody explain to me how after living in Riverside, California for well over two years, I have never heard of the movie Inland Empire?  It is made by David Lynch in 2006, the guy who also made Twin Peaks and other weird stuff.  I’m going to watch the movie tonight, and I hope It has some things I recognize from the local area.  Maybe the Mission Inn, or the University of California, Riverside campus.

Inland Empire Movie

I’ll let the readers of this blog know if I find anything related to local search engine optimization that would be useful.

Every small business needs a website.  Most small businesses either ignore this great opportunity, or take the idea in the wrong direction.  We are very focused on actually getting new customers for your business.  A website is generally just a tool to get this done.

• A website is permanent. Television and radio ads last 30 seconds.  Ads in magazines last as long as people keep them around.
• Say whatever you want! Yellow pages ads cost more when you need to say more, and they are only printed once.  Your website can be updated any time you want to reflect minute-by-minute changes.
• Get found! If somebody types your company name into a search engine, do they find you?  Do they find your competitors? In the worst case scenario, do people find something that isn’t even true about your company?
• Do you have bigger ideas? Do you want to start the next Amazon.com, or Ebay.com?  We call ourselves ELW software for a reason.  We love trying out new things on the web.  Your idea might just be the next big thing!

We would love to help you build your dream website!  Contact us for a free consultation!

There is a new sign on our building on Indiana Avenue in Riverside.  Did you like it?  We want to know.  In case you missed it our bright ELW sign is in the window of our offices at 6833 Indiana Avenue, where our web design and development company is located.  We also added the new ELW door sign on the glass featuring our ELWsoftware.com logo design.

These new signs will hopefully keep out the lowlifes looking for the security company that used to occupy our office.  Our logo design demands that we used multiple colors for our ELW and ELWsoftware.com signs.  Small businesses need good signs, but they also need professionally designed web pages.  Our office is located across the hall from Sunset Massage, and we think they need a web site.  If they get more customers with a website, we could get more business as well.

In the twelve hours since I last checked, our positions in search pages has dropped an average of 20 places.  This is an interesting opportunity to discover a few things about Google:

1. Only one thing changed on our site in the last 24 hours.
2. I don’t suspect there are 20 new web designers appearing in Riverside, California yesterday.
3. Something pissed off somebody at Google, or their algorithm changed.

There are a few suspects, one blog post was made yesterday about a spam blog comment we received.  This comment was obviously automatically generated as I found thousands of instances of the exact comment on other sites when I searched.  So, I made a blog post about the comment, hoping that others searching for the phrase would find my post instead of an endless list of his spam.  Could Google be associating this blog with spam because of the article? I don’t think so, since the comment is completely innocent and contains no profanity.  It is possible, and worth experimenting with.  I’ll take the article down next week and see if it changes anything.  It is important to test these things.

Another possibility is that some human suddenly noticed that I wrote a post about how Google sucks.  This hypothesis suggests that the page was penalized manually because whatever monkeys they have banging on keyboards at Google didn’t realize that they might learn something.  I don’t think the “Google Sucks” theory is what occurred, if only because the Google Sucks article itself went down in its ranking for the search Google Sucks.

So, there are two possibilities I am taking seriously:  The article about comment spam, and a random change in algorithm.  If this is a change in algorithm, there is one way to figure it out and that is by looking at the attributes of the pages that improved their rankings and moved ahead of us.  This is pretty simple, and most likely won’t discover anything too valuable.  I’ll also check some online forums to see if anything happened nationwide.  If the algorithm changed, it probably had an impact felt in more places than just a web design company in southern California.  Time will tell, and I will post again when I know more about this incident.

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