It is best to plan first, then act. Articles and books are definitely helpful if you have the time to research authors and absorb the detail. However, you have a law firm and a case load to look after. The internet (especially search engine technology), like a lot of law, changes so quickly that many books become out-dated by the time they are released. If you don't have the time to do a great deal of reading, don't worry. We have done the studying of the Web, so we can represent your interests and serve as your implementation consultants.


A good initial course of action would be to visit Web sites of law firms in the same practice area and decide what you like and don't like about them. Don't get too caught up on your likes and dislikes, however; your clients and would-be clients may view sites differently than you do. We set-up systems to track your website traffic and analyse the statistics then, fine tune the site to get you the best response.

How do we interpret the statistics?

This is a partial list of what we can view when accessing your statistics:

* Total Hits This is the count of the total number of items (pages, graphics, video, etc - all elements of a site and its pages) viewed on the site for a particular time period.
* Total Successful Hits This is the Total Hits count minus any elements of the site that were not properly displayed to a user for a particular time period. If there is a large difference in #1 and #2, it does not necessarily indicate a problem with the site. It could indicate someone stopped the download of a page in the middle, or left the site abruptly etc.
* Total HomePage Views This is the total number of times that index.html was displayed for a particular time period.

Thinking about a website for your law firm?

Where do you start? How much will it cost your law firm? Do you even need a site and, if so, should you have your own Web server or should you pay for space on a hosting server? How do you tie together your strategy for the site, for your clients, for your potential clients and for your staff? WebsiteDesign-LawFirm.com has the answers.

There are a lot of questions you need to ask yourself when you're thinking about a website for your law firm. Though no one knows your business like you do, no one knows internet marketing like we do. We can help you answer those questions and a few you might not even think to ask.

WebsiteDesign-LawFirm.com can save you a great deal of time and money by showing you how to avoid costly redesign and marketing errors. Many law firm website designs are overloaded with graphics and so they may load too slowly. Web users wait an average of 8.6 seconds before they start to get impatient and click on another law firm's website. Sites with too few graphics may look bland or may not navigate as well. Twenty-five percent of a designer's time is spent accommodating browsers and the many versions of those browser . A site designed with one browser in mind, e.g., Explorer, may work poorly in Netscape.