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We are really excited to let you know about a project we have been thinking about and working on for a long time.
Today we are launching Lawyerist Sites, a new service to design and host great law firm websites and blogs.
It’s Time You Had a Better Website
If you’ve been paying attention, Sam has been focusing a lot of energy lately on criticizing the current state of a lot of law firm websites and law blogs.
The truth is that a lot of law firm websites and blogs are terrible—either they have bad design, are out of date, or they don’t understand how to write great content for readers.
It’s time to change that.
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Website redesign projects often begin with phrases like “our website looks generic”, or “we hate our site, it looks like a template,” or “our website does not convey the image of our firm.” The answer to all of these problems is imagery. When your website uses generic images, your website looks generic. Maybe you have a fancy layout, or a tricky animated slideshow, or messaging and copywriting that you have slaved over, but none of these will survive the malignant tumor of horrible images.
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Those of you using WordPress for your website or blog have probably noticed that we really like Thesis, an advanced WordPress theme/framework that makes it easy for people with basic HTML, CSS, and PHP skills to craft a custom website. Thesis is what I use for Lawyerist, as well as all my own websites.
I’m a big fan. Or, rather, I was.
Recently, DIY Themes launched Thesis 2, and I have been exploring it on my test sites ever since. I regret to say it is a big disappointment, and I am sticking with Thesis 1.8.5 until it no longer meets my needs. Read on if you want to know why.
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Designing a website with a clear and targeted perspective can work wonders for your business and make it a raving success with just the right choice of layout and images. Just as your business is a manifestation of your ideas and conceptualization, your website design should be a mirror of your smart aesthetic sense. A spark of creativity and a unique personal touch can turn even the a simple website into a glorious success. Follow the following simple tips to make your web page stand out and shine amongst a sea of others!
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Website builders can offer a simple, clean way to create a static front page to post information. Godaddy’s new Website Builder (formerly Website Tonight) claims to be fast, easy, mobile and complete. But fast and easy really shouldn’t be the highest priorities in developing a website for a business, especially when that business is a law firm.
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Lawyerists have been encouraging you to optimize your law firm’s website for mobile since at least 2010. And while it’s still really good advice to optimize your legal website or blog for mobile device viewing, I think you’re probably better off switching to a responsive design than using a WordPress plugin or other mobile web design workaround.
Does Mobile Matter?
Back in 2010, Randall observed that it’s unlikely your web-based marketing will fail if you do not have a mobile website. And he’s right, at least for now. However, it’s difficult to ignore the rapid growth of the mobile web and its impact on businesses, like law firms.
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For almost a year now, I have been searching for an easy-to-use static website builder. I can already hear my SEO pals cringing right now, but sometimes I need a simple, clean, static front page to post information about my business, special events or my portfolio.
While I like using Blogger and WordPress for sites that involve a lot of updates, neither of these sites work well when I need to build a static website. Luckily, I finally discovered Wix.
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The Cisco Visual Networking Index predicts that there will be 788 million mobile-only Internet users by 2015. And according to the International Data Corporation (IDC), a market research company, more United States consumers will access the Internet on mobile devices than computers by 2015. That means that by 2015, lawyers whose information cannot be easily found and viewed on a mobile device may be left behind.
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Lawyers tend to fancy themselves pretty smart folks. And they like to try to prove it to others.
They use big words. They use a lot of words. They use complexity, obfuscation and legalese.
And aside from wowing judges, jurors and opposing counsel, one of their favorite occasions for employing this wordsmithery, is when they are telling war stories or talking about what is that they do.
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