I’m in the middle of a site redesign for my law firm’s website: petermlopez.com. It is still in the very early stages, and content is sparse, but the basic look and feel is there. Please visit, have a look around, and feel free to offer thoughts, ideas, suggestions, tips, pointers, cash, or anything else you think might be helpful.
I am using SquareSpace for the site construction and hosting. The website tools are quite remarkable and easy to use. I would highly recommend it. If any of you are familiar with SquareSpace, please let me know, I would love to pick your brain about it.
My design skills are somewhat lacking, but I’ve played around with one of the templates I liked, and I think the foundation is there for a decent site.
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#1 by Larry Who on November 3, 2009 - 11:58 am
What are you using your website for? To increase business or just to be a ready reference for people to check out as a back-up resource.
If you are using it to increase business, then you need to sell yourself rather write a bunch of facts.
If it is intended as a ready-reference or a back-up resource, then it’s great.
Remember: you have just a few seconds to grab people’s attention. That’s the nature of the internet.
And of course, since this is free advice, it may be worthless. But I would hire you and recommend you just because I like and trust you.
#2 by Peter on November 3, 2009 - 12:07 pm
Thanks, Larry. It’s just a resource more than anything else. I appreciate your input.
#3 by ElShaddai Edwards on November 3, 2009 - 12:44 pm
LOL I’m sure it’s just the Information Architect in me (my day job), but it’s driving me nuts that your containers, widgets, etc. don’t align to the grid background!
#4 by Peter on November 4, 2009 - 10:07 am
Must be because I didn’t even notice that. I think I can play around with the padding to see if I can fix that, but I assume the background is just an image, so anytime I add anything to the widgets I might have the same problem. Thanks for noticing though, I’ll mess around with it.
#5 by ElShaddai Edwards on November 4, 2009 - 10:10 am
Oh no, don’t waste your time. I just spend all day working in Visio, aligning wireframes to grids so I tend to notice such things…
#6 by Peter on November 4, 2009 - 10:58 am
Oh, wonderful, you’ve just saved me a lot of time with my glasses on top of my head staring at a computer screen far too closely.
#7 by Scripture Zealot on November 3, 2009 - 12:57 pm
I like how the two right columns are arranged and ordered. The only two things I saw on the main page are “puts their life in my hand.” I would say “hands” plural. Maybe that’s a variable thing though. And I think the red news headers are way too big, especially because they’re red.
You have a big job. That must be stressful but you must like it a lot to be able to handle it.
Jeff
#8 by Peter on November 4, 2009 - 10:11 am
Nice catch on the “hands” thing. I’ve caught a few typos here and there, but not all of them I’m sure. I wondered about the red headers, but they are actually site wide, although there’s not enough to tell that yet. I might make them a little smaller, but I like the red, it’s much better than the template’s other colors which included an awful orange.
As far as liking it, it’s hard to say. I think I actually like the idea of “it” more than I like “it” itself.
#9 by T.C. R on November 3, 2009 - 1:01 pm
You’re off to a great start, my friend.
#10 by Peter on November 4, 2009 - 10:11 am
Thank you very much.
#11 by Robert Jimenez on November 10, 2009 - 4:58 pm
Nice job Peter.
#12 by Peter on November 10, 2009 - 5:03 pm
Thanks, Robert.
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