02Planning
Give visitors a clear route
Use understandable labels, distinct page roles, and a consistent structure to help people find relevant information.
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Before the design,
get the brief right.
Know the audience. Define the job. Give every design decision a reason.
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Content, experience, and discovery.
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03Content
Make the homepage say something
Replace broad slogans with a clear explanation of the firm’s work, verifiable evidence, and an accurate next step.
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04Content
Build useful practice-area pages
Explain scope, common questions, relevant preparation, and the firm’s role without producing repetitive pages for search engines.
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05Content
Write a biography people can use
Present accurate qualifications, relevant work, and a clear professional role in a format readers can scan and understand.
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06Experience
Design for more ways of browsing
Review structure, keyboard access, readable content, and essential tasks as part of the design process rather than a final decoration.
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07Experience
Make first contact thoughtful
Limit the first enquiry to useful information, explain the next step accurately, and plan how submissions are received and protected.
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08Experience
Keep the experience quick and steady
Use measurements to find slow loading, unresponsive controls, and unstable layouts, then prioritise the changes that matter.
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09Discovery
Make local information trustworthy
Connect genuine locations, consistent business details, and meaningful local pages without inventing offices or overloading names with keywords.
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10Discovery
Move to the new site with a plan
Inventory existing pages, map changed addresses, preserve useful content, and check the paths visitors rely on before launch.
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A legal website is
an experience.
Make it a useful one.
Someone arrives with a question, a concern, or a name they have been given. Your website should help them understand where they are and what they can do next.
Lawyer Web Design explores the decisions behind that experience: structure, language, access, careful handling of enquiries, and long-term upkeep.
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