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ContactAnnouncing the Debut of DennisKennedyLaw.com
I've just finished putting together a new website just for my legal practice at www.denniskennedylaw.com. It's hosted and build on templates and tools provided by Martindale-Hubbell.
For those who want to know what my legal practice is, the new site is the place to find out. I wanted to clearly define my legal practice by separating it from the other things that I'm doing (consulting, speaking, writing, products), which will all stay (for now) at the DennisKennedy.com website.
I also wanted to experiment with the Martindale-Hubbell approach to websites. I'm quite pleased with the process and results, although as someone long used to writing my own HTML, it can be a little frustrating not to be able dig into the code to get the results you want. On the other hand, I got a consistently-designed site in a very short time.
This templated approach to web design is a good development - I am thrilled with the way Movable Type generates my blog.
My experience also validates, in my mind, the "$80 necktie theory of web design" proposed by the ever-wise Jerry Lawson here and here.
Jerry says:
"the increasing popularity of high quality templates, templates, driven by the database and cascading style sheets used in sophisticated blog software, will make the graphics and layout part of web site development increasingly easy and inexpensive. We will come to consider our blog's graphic look and layout to be no more important than men consider their neckties. . . . The average clothes designer lacks the style of Ralph Lauren. Mass marketing lets many people own Ralph Lauren clothes. Similarly, most web site designers lack the style sense of the top designers. Clever use of templates will make the style sense of the world’s absolute best designers as affordable as a Ralph Lauren off the rack necktie."
In my case, Martindale-Hubbell gave me a template that had a reasonably modern look and created a good container for the content I wanted. It's comfortable necktie that I'm quite comfortable to wear in a professional setting.
Check it out and let me know what you think.
