Beyond the Basics

What this means is that we can and will do more to your site than what is listed in our singular package. Perhaps you have more lawyers in your firm than what is stated, or maybe you have need for a more extensive news and articles section. You could even need something special on your site like a video or photo gallery. All this can be done for you at an extra cost that will be reasonable and fair. Some general upgrades would be as follows:

• More lawyer profiles = $50 each
• Extra news/article/link sections = $30 each
• Multiple polls = $25 each
• More extensive logo design = $25 per hour

Again, the CMS (Content Management System) we use to develop our sites is very powerful and highly customizable. Pretty much, if you have need for any type of functionality on your site the chances are excellent that we can configure it in to suit your needs. Below is a short list of functionality you may want to incorporate and pricing will be determined upon evaluation and discussed specifics.

• Event calenders
• Video showcase
• Photo galleries
• Flash (animation) based elements
• Hosting paid ads
• Email Newsletters
• Forums
• E-Store
• Custom forms
• Weekly/Monthly/Bi-weekly administration by us
• And much, much more...

For the most, if you have seen any sort of function on any site, chances are high that we can implement it for you.

SEO (Search engine Optimization)

This is a very large topic and can become very complicated to employ.

First off, be warned that any company promising you front page rankings in 1-5 days is most likely doing you much more harm than good. To get these types of rankings in such a short time usually means that they are doing what is know as "Black Hat" SEO. If search engines discover this, your site will be banned from the database and no one will be able to find you.

What we offer in this area are the basics. This means we add meta data and tags to your posted content and help you submit the right information to the right places. We will also advise you on how to properly manipulate the way the 3 major search engines to help your rankings increase. But the first step we take is to turn the web URLs of you pages into something humans and search engines can read. Unfortunately, there is really only one downfall to the CMS we use and it really cannot be avoided. Since the sites we build are built with PHP the URLs of your pages will look something like this:

http://justlawyersites.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=60

With some configuration we can make that look like this:

http://justlawyersites.com/beyond-the-basics.html

Both will link to the same page within your site, but since the optimized address uses real words, search engines can better sort out what to do with the information it reads. Feel free to copy and past the two into your browser to see that both are indeed the same page you are reading now.

Since we only offer basic SEO, our price range will usually be between $500-$600. This of course depends on the amount of content you have on your site.

Custom Template Design

Now to be honest, we do not get much call for this since the professional templates we know and trust are very well designed by top coders and designers. However, if this is something you would like, it can be done. We would generally charge by the hour for design work ($25-35) and the cost of outsourcing the conversion process with someone we know will do the job correctly.