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Skip to ContentLocal Plagiarism
Today I got a call from one of my clients that sounded pretty upset when I answered. I ask what was going on and he proceeded to tell me that someone had stolen their site design and used it for their business site. If that wasn’t enough - the company that stole it is a direct competitor in the same town as Century Driving School. From what it sounds like, this isn’t the first time these guys have ripped Century’s ideas off.
So after our conversation on the issue, we called the owner and asked him what the heck was up. He somewhat passed the buck onto his web developer (which is also guilty) but also got caught up in a few lies himself while trying to describe he had no idea how this happened.
As of right now - we’ve told him he has until Monday the 18th to either have his website redesigned or taken down. If he decides to keep it up, the lawyers get involved and begin to have a conversation with him and his developer on intellectual copyright law and deliberately hurting the Century Driving School’s brand.
Note: Dan Morrison also helped out with the website and he had a few things to say as well on his brand new blog.
Print has an Ending
An advantage of print over web is the simple fact of an ending.
When reading a book, you feel accomplishment with each passing chapter instead of being overwhelmed by passed hours of clicks and links.
Large amounts of time online can get frustrating. When you leave, you feel there’s so much more that has yet to be discovered. Since you can’t measure the amount of progress you’ve had on a subject, you constantly feel overwhelmed by the never-ending pages.
With a book, magazine, newspaper, etc… You have an immediate beginning and end. With every page being achieved, you’re able to put the progress in perspective of finishing. Not having this same feeling online makes reading web pages very frustrating for users.
So why bring this up? I think it’s an interface problem and I’m curious in how to solve it. One idea is to tell people how many pages are on the site and how many of those they have read so far. You could go even further and tell people how many more pages there are on this particular subject and how many they have read so far.
There’s quite a few ideas and I’d almost bet money - if this got some more attention by web developers, site retention would go way up.
Holiday Specials at Elevator Up
The Schaap family has been getting into the Holiday season. Jodi and Jessica made a bunch of little treats and flower arrangements all morning then pulled me away from my computer to walk up and down our street delivering them to our neighbors.
With all the Holiday cheer in the air - I got a little festive and decided to give Elevator Up a little sprucing up as well. Along with the new face - I decided to offer a free month of web hosting to those signing up over the holidays. If that weren’t enough, I also added more storage space to everyone’s account and opened up the bandwidth pipes a bit more.
So if you’ve been thinking about signing up, now’s the best time.
