web design

Why Your Law Firm Should Use a Content-Management System

December 26, 2009

Guest post by Lauren Pesko.
A law firm’s website should attract new clients, communicate with existing ones, and aid in the sharing of information among the lawyers of the firm. If an attorney website is skillfully constructed and has regularly-updated content, it can be an effective tool for search engine marketing, while still presenting your business [...]

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How To Choose A Blog Designer

October 22, 2009

Guest post by Mister Thorne.
If you want a blog to do you a lick of good, you have got to concern yourself with things you have probably never had to concern yourself with before. In this article, I consider five of those things, and they are all about design: form and function.

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New Contributor: Karin Conroy, Marketing Consultant

August 4, 2009

I am excited to join the amazing group of writers at Lawyerist, and hope to present a unique perspective since I am not a lawyer. I recently graduated with my MBA with an emphasis in marketing from the University of California, Irvine .
My background includes a combination of creative and analytical—I also attended UCI for [...]

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What are you paying for hosting—and are you getting your money’s worth?

July 9, 2008

Website and e-mail hosting are services for which you can pay a little or a lot with little difference in service. And sometimes you actually get more when you pay less.
For example, I pay $10/month for hosting for my firm website, three blogs (this blog, Caveat Emptor, and Lawyerist), and unlimited e-mail accounts. I get [...]

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Tom Tuft on marketing a well-established family law firm

May 13, 2008

Every Friday for the last few weeks I have posted interviews with solo and small firm attorneys who talked to me about their marketing strategies, online and offline, high tech and old school. Today’s (belatedly posted) interview with Tom Tuft is the last interview.
My last interviewee is Tom Tuft, of Tuft & Arnold Law Office, [...]

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Online marketing 101: websites and advertising online (part 2 of 3)

February 21, 2008

Okay, so you are comfortable with online privacy issues, you have spent some time on Wikipedia and Google learning about the “geek stuff,” and now you want to get going and market your law firm online. Obviously, you want to start with square one: a website. And a website is the logical next step in [...]

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Online marketing 101: privacy and technical know-how (part 1 of 3)

February 5, 2008

By now, most attorneys are at least thinking about marketing their practice online, if not doing it in some fashion already. But “online marketing” is a concept so vague it is completely unhelpful. Online marketing encompasses everything from websites to social networking sites to chat rooms. Much online marketing is similar to offline marketing, but [...]

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Website basics

July 31, 2007

Every lawyer should have a website by now. That is not news, just a fact. Lawyers who don’t have some kind of online calling card, whether a blog, Facebook or MySpace page, or website, are missing out on clients. Period.

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Law firm marketing: web sites and blogs

May 30, 2007

Every lawyer I know either has a web site or want one. Many lawyers have a vague belief that a web site is a required marketing tool “in this day and age,” but few know why that is or how they expect a web site to benefit them.
Web sites
Most law firm web sites are static [...]

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Style tips for HTML: the difference between hyphens and dashes

May 29, 2007

A List Apart has a great article on using special characters in HTML. According to the article, decimal codes are the way to go, and you shouldn’t trust FrontPage and Dreamweaver to insert the correct character codes for viewing across browsers.
The article also goes into an illustration–well worth reading–on the differences between hyphens, em dashes, [...]

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