{"id":707,"date":"2008-01-08T10:45:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T17:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreamcodesign.com\/blog\/lawyer-web-design-overruled\/"},"modified":"2013-12-27T15:11:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T22:11:03","slug":"lawyer-web-design-overruled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreamcodesign.com\/blog\/lawyer-web-design-overruled\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer Web Design: Overruled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being in such a serious profession lawyers should portray themselves as such. Most people don&#8217;t look in the yellow pages anymore to pick out a lawyer. The internet is being used in place of the yellow pages. Heck, even when people want to look through the yellow pages they go t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dreamcodesign.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/01\/lawyer-web-design-phonebook.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>o the online site to do it. It is important that a lawyer or their firm has a website to represent them in a professional way. Not having a website is almost sudden death for a starting business. It&#8217;s the same way for a legal firm; especially these days. Be sure that if you don&#8217;t know anything about web design, to have a professional build your site. There is nothing <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dreamcodesign.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/01\/lawyer-web-design-old.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"194\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>worse than a site built by an amateur, because everyone can tell.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer web design is not something people think about too often. Most lawyers that don&#8217;t have websites are older and more well-established. They most likely started their business while the internet was still a fetus.\u00a0They already have a client base and are not really in need of a professionally designed website to boost their intake. Although this is true, it is also true that these types of lawyers wouldn&#8217;t lose anything by having a website. It benefits everyone; this means the firm and potential clients trying to find out who you are,\u00a0where you&#8217;re located, and what type of law you practice in. This all vital information for a potential client looking for your firm on the internet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dreamcodesign.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/01\/lawyer-web-design-mouth.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even if you&#8217;re well-established, you could always be even more successful. A website is a definite plus. More and more people want to find information quickly on the internet; lawyers are one of these topics. More than likely if someone can&#8217;t find you on the internet when\u00a0they are looking for your\u00a0keywords\/terms then you won&#8217;t be used. Word of mouth is popular but the internet is faster. It&#8217;s science. For more information on lawyer web design check us out at <a title=\"Lawyer Web Design\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamcodesign.com\/lawyerwebdesign.php\">DreamCo Design<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"Lawyer Web Design\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamcodesign.com\/lawyerwebdesign.php\">Lawyer Web Design<\/a>. For more information on other types of web design take a look at <a title=\"Web Design\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamcodesign.com\">DreamCo Design<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"Web Design\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamcodesign.com\">Web Design<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being in such a serious profession lawyers should portray themselves as such. Most people don&#8217;t look in the yellow pages anymore to pick out a lawyer. The internet is being used in place of the yellow pages. Heck, even when people want to look through the yellow pages they go to the online site to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawyer-web-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamcodesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamcodesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamcodesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamcodesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamcodesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamcodesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3345,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamcodesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/3345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamcodesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamcodesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamcodesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}