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Welcome to Hannah Web Design

Flat Rate Packages. Hannah Web Design (“HWD”) offers several flat-rate package quotations of website design services for small law firms. In fact, we cater to small boutique law firms. HWD does not, however, limit its design and development services to law firms. We are particularly proud of our other websites. You can view our portfolio online to see the other websites that we have developed. Pricing of websites for non-lawyer clients may very well fit into the flat-rate package quotation. The variables will include the number of pages, images, links, and manipulation and uploading of images involved. Feel free to contact us for more details. HWD’s flat-rate quotations include initial planning stages through final upload to the Internet and online testing of your site.

Flat Rate Basic Website. HWD's basic website is a cost-effective way to gain an online presence. You'll find that it typically costs less than yellow-pages advertising, particularly if you need to advertise in areas serviced by more than one directory. Moreover, unlike yellow-pages advertising, it offers you the opportunity to give your potential clients a lot more information for a lot less money. HWD's Basic Website is essentially an electronic online business card. These are one-page websites that are economical and affordable for new lawyers and law firms, for solo practitioners, and for those whose advertising budget is limited. Click on the sample immediately below to see the impact you can make with a basic website. Even the smallest firm can have a highly professional and effective web presence, typically costing less than a 3-column two inch yellow pages ad.

Basic websites are intended to help your firm or business:

Note: If you request use of commercial stock photos to develop your firm’s logo, the responsibility for out-of-pocket costs is not included in flat-rate design packages.

Premier Website. This flat-rate package is for the lawyer or law firm, practicing professionals of all kinds, and businesses that want to make an impression on potential new clients and customers. This website is rich in content and information. It will literally pay for itself by conserving the time you and your support staff typically spend educating clients. For law firms, these time-consuming tasks include, for example:

describing the typical process of a lawsuit from the time of investigation of the claim until the entry of judgment

informing the client how to dress for and how to behave in a deposition or trial

giving the client directions to the courthouse and to your office

This website package allows you to fully inform prospective clients about your general approach to cases, to provide up-to-date information on the state of the law in the area of practice of concern to your clients, etc. You can post articles you've written, client newsletters, testimonials, and more.

Here are two examples of our Premier Websites:

Premier Website. This is HWD's most popular website design product. This is a typical website, usually having a minimum of 5 pages. It can  have many more pages, depending upon the variety of legal services that a law firm offers and upon whether you add pages that help with website marketing strategies. The Premier Website is unique to your firm with a custom design that is intended to help your firm project its image, let the potential client know about your expertise, your reputation, and your experience. It's intended to set you apart from your competitors in the community. Some of our clients use these premier websites even though they also subscribe to one or more directories. Those directories are "re-directed" to the HWD-designed website so that directory visitors see your Premier website, not the website that might have been designed by someone in your firm using a directory's template driven software. For a quote on a Premier Website, contact Hannah Web Design today.

Premier website are intended to help your firm:

• Increase your client base

• "Brand" your law firm—develop or improve your image

• Educate your existing clientele to save critical staff-hours

• Help your clients prepare for meetings with you, for depositions, or for trial

• Distribute forms and handle new client intake

• Handle credit card payments

Some of the things that you will have on your Premier website are:

• Unique email addresses for everyone in your firm, including staff

• Unlimited hot links per page

• Free site submission to 850,000+ search engines

• Free secure server forms

• Free on site search engine within your pages if appropriate

• Quality service and professional development

Let's talk about pricing.

For new websites, we offer the flat rate website design packages described above. For these flat rates, you supply the content—digital images (photos of the law firm and/or individual lawyers and staff, photos of your office, digital (Word or WordPerfect) data files with content that includes profiles of the lawyer(s), practice areas, specific information that you want your clients to know. The Basic Website is priced above. We'll need more information about your firm or business to price a Premier Website for you.

Request a Free Website Design Quote now. HWD will promptly contact you to discuss the website design services that are right for you. Each website is specifically designed for you. HWD’s flat rate packages ensure affordable services without any surprises at the end. You will know from the moment we begin the design process what your website will cost.

For more information, see our portfolio of recent designs

Upgrades to existing websites. You might have a beautiful existing website that is not generating the kind of traffic that you have expected. HWD will show you why your website is “lost in cyberspace”  and will work with you to upgrade your existing website. Effective SEO helps potential clients or customers find your firm or company using search engines. Effective SEO includes specific information that is placed in the background of the website, hidden clues that tell search engines what your webpage—what your law firm or company—is all about. Included in the SEO flat-rate package is submission to major search engines to help your website get indexed as quickly as possible.

Search Engine Optimization. Search engine optimization ("SEO") is the specialized component that helps your website tell search engines that your site is particularly relevant to the search query submitted by a potential client. Fees for SEO are quoted separately because not all of our clients will want or need SEO. You can read more about SEO here.

Some of HWD's clients want a website because they want to project a modern, mainstream image to their clients—to fit in in today's world where so much depends upon visibility on the Internet. Some of HWD's clients will use their website to educate existing clients and to provide them with updates on issues of concern to their client-base. Some will use our custom-designed websites like a business card. These clients are likely to subscribe to directories such as Martindale-Hubbell (www.lawyers.com), Thomson (www.findlaw.com), www.yellowpages.com, etc. Those directories then place the business card into the prospective client's hands. Our lowest price flat rate website package will be perfect for such a client.

However, SEO is crucial to the success of any website that is intended to be more than a business card that must be placed into the hands of a potential client, whether by the firm or by a directory. You could have the most beautiful website in your community, but it may be "lost in cyberspace." HWD can help you figure out why that is so and what can be done to improve your website's ranking in major search engines.

Development of Content. HWD believes that it is critical to a successful legal website that the designer/developer actually be a lawyer—in other words, be in a position to know what a potential client is looking for and how that prospective client might tell the search engine to find the right law firm. Because HWD is owned and operated by a lawyer who has practiced for over 20 years, HWD is in a position to guide you as you supply the specific content for your website. HWD will help you to provide content that will convince persons viewing your website that you have the experience, the expertise, the knowledge, the resources, and the commitment that will help them succeed in their law suit.  In fact, HWD is in a unique position to provide written material for your website to enrich its content and hence its credibility with search engines. If you're a busy lawyer and you've delayed developing an online presence because you don't have the time to devote to developing the content, call us for a quote. We'll be glad to work with you to write your content.

Design | Navigation | Marketing Issues. HWD believes that websites should be user-friendly with easy navigation that helps potential clients to move around your website. We believe that websites should be visually appealing, should avoid clichés, and should offer content that keeps a visitor coming back again and again. We also believe that a website should help convince a visitor to refer others to the website to view its helpful and unique content. We believe that websites should engage the user to explore, should help the client save time and money by offering information via the Internet rather than by engaging the time and energy of in-house staff. HWD also believes that websites should offer its client the opportunity to use the website for marketing in order to enhance its ranking on major search engines so that a potential client will actually find the website within the top returns in a search.

Most of all, HWD believes that you should have the best website possible, but still be able to make it fit your budget. Bear in mind, you might start out with a basic plan and upgrade later.

Where Do We Start?

First, we begin with your goals and objectives for your website. We identify your intended audience and we develop and design your website to capture the attention of your market.

We look at your current marketing plan and logo design. We may decide that preserving corporate identity is critical so that your company is easily recognizable whether your client is surfing your website or reading your latest newsletter. On the other hand, working together, we might develop a fresh new logo that captures the philosophy that you want to project to your prospective clients.

HWD is experienced in web standards and website design practices.  HWD strives for easy navigation, fast loading time, consistency, and a crisp, clean, and sophisticated web presence. Click here to see our recent website design portfolio.

Hannah Web Design Update Services

HWD works with law firm clients to “update” their expensive directory services in order to give your competition in the local bar association a run for their money. If a prospective client uses one of the many large law firm directories to find a lawyer with your profile on the Internet, your website needs to “kick butt”—to project an image of competency, experience, and expertise that will blow the opposition out of the water. HWD can develop a dynamite free-standing website and can then re-direct your directory listings to this dynamic new website. Then, when prospective clients are faced with a choice of 20 or more law firms, your website has the opportunity to be a standout—to convince the prospective client that he or she should contact you rather than someone else in town.

HWD will work one-on-one with you to determine the type of updating that your website requires to keep it current and relevant. As the law evolves, a law firm will need website content revised. You may need software licenses renewed, content updated, photos uploaded, profiles updated, or forms added. It takes time to make all of the necessary routine modifications demanded to keep your website current and credible. HWD can do this for you. Contact us to get a quick flat-rate quote for updating your existing website.

Website Design  |  Search Engine Optimization  |  Content  |  Internet Marketing  |  Web Maintenance

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