Welcome to the appellate law web designers webpage.
If you are are an appellate lawyer and are interested in designing an appellate law webpage for a state or federal circuit to be part of this webpage, please review the following materials. There is a form at the bottom of this page that you can use to contact us.
As explained below, CounselWeb offers two ways to participate in the appellate law webpages:
The idea behind these webpages is simple: several appellate lawyers can design a better website working together than working separately. And creating one set of interrelated appellate web sites will work to the advantage of all the lawyers who participate. Together, this collection of websites will form an appellate law supersite.
Here's how it works. This website is at www.appellatelaw.net. There are three sets of webpages on this site:
These three sets of webpages all contain links pointing to each other:
There are several benefits to a structure like this.
Since each state and federal circuit webpage is
prepared by a different attorney, we will have many attorneys
with many perspecitves contributing to this website. Since most
appellate attorneys practice primarily, if not exclusively, in
one state, individual contirbutors can focus on the area they
know best. The result will be a website with more information on
appellate law than any single attorney could provide.
Because of this size of this website, it is likely
to attract more traffic than an individual website could. Most
people find websites through search engines, and all of the
websites at this site will be registered on all the major search
engines. No single webpage can consistently appear at the
top of search engines. Different webpages appear at different
positions, depending on the search engine's own internal
programming and the wording of the search query.
But with enough appellate law webpages, it is likely that some of the webpages will appear high on the search engine results page. And once people enter the site, they are likely to browse around and find the other appellate law sites.
Similarly, some web hits come from direct links from other webpages. Again, since each webpage will have links from other webpages on different sites, there is likely to be a large number of links into the appellate law website from many independent webpages.
Separating the substantive appellate law webpages
from the attorney webpages increases the likelihood that each
will be found on search engines or through links. It also
increases the likelihood that people will visit the website. Most
webpage experts generally agree that "content is king."
A "billboard" webpage that simply describes a lawyer's
or law firm's practice is not likely to get many hits. But a
webpage that provdes useful information is considerably more
likely to get hits.
But doesn't this mean that the lawyers writing each
webpage are providing links to their competitors' webpages?
Not really. Most lawyers do not really compete against lawyers in other states. Most Texans looking for a Texas appellate lawyer who find a New York appellate law page will not be interested in hiring the New York attorney. But if the New York appellate law webpage provided a link to the Texas appellate law page, and the Texas page did the same for the New York page, then both appellate lawyer are better off. Each will get some web traffic from the other site, and this redirected web traffic will likely be people from their state.
Since each attorney webpage and each state and federal circuit webpage provides links to the general webpage, and the general webpage provides links back out to the state and federal webpages and the attorney webpages, anyone wandering into any part of the appellate law site can easily find the best appellate law page for them.
If you sign up for an appellate law webpage, you will actually receive two webpages: a state or federal circuit webpage and an individual attorney or lawfirm webpage.
Your webpages include the following:
The price of a basic webpage is $400 per year, with a one-time $50 set up fee. This is about $33 per month. (Additional disk space and matching e-mail addresses are also available.)
If you do not wish to participate in the appellate law supersite, or if your state and circuit are already taken on the supersite, you can still have a lawyer or law firm webpage at appellatelaw.net. You can put whatever you would like on your webpage.
Also, the general appellate law webpage will include a link to your webpage from the Appellate Attorneys webpage.
Your webpages include the following:
The price of an attorney or law firm webpage is $150 per year, with a one-time $50 set up fee. This is under $13 per month. (Additional disk space and matching e-mail addresses are also available.)
If you already have your own domain name, or would like one, we can host your site as well. You will receive everything in the lawyer or law firm webpage, plus your own domain name. The price of hosting your own domain name is $200 per year, with a one-time $50 set up fee.
You might wander how you go about writing a webpage. Actually, the basic idea is quite easy. There are numerous inexpensive webpage editors that work like word processors. You simply type your text, format it using pull-down menus or the toolbar, insert images, and select things like fonts, text size, background colors, document titles, and background images. You save each page as a computer file on your own computer, the same way you save word processing documents.
When you sign up for a webpage, you will receive information on how to transfer files from your computer to the appellate law computer using an FTP program. (FTP is a way of sending computer files over the internet from one computer to another.) There are several good FTP programs that are free and can be downloaded over the internet. We will provide you with all the necessary information. You would then just send the files from your computer to the appellate law computer.
Once the files are on the appellate law computer, your webpage is up and running.
More detailed information about setting up a webpage can be found on CounselWeb's WWW Faq page.
CounselWeb is currently in the process of developing an on-line webpage editor. Once this is up and running, you can design and preview a webpage on-line. When you are satisfied with it, simply click "save." Your webpage will be saved in the appropriate place on the appellate law computer and will be up and running.
The most important part of writing a legal webpage is determing what to say. Appellate law webpages can include information on the appellate process in your jurisdiction, appellate judges, recent legal developments, and the dicussion from the appellate law webpages. Browse through the webpages on this site -- and other legal webpages as well -- to see what other lawyers have done.
If you are interested in creating an appellate law webpage, or if you would like more information, please fill out the following form.
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