Website Design Process
When you select The Modern Firm to design your law firm’s website you’ll get to experience a fun, fast-paced and interactive process that has been tuned over the last 8 years. Depending on the design package, your website can be up and running in as little as two weeks. Most projects take between three and six weeks.
Step 1 - In-depth Interview
Every website design client goes through an extensive interview with The Modern Firm staff. The interview, which lasts 1-2 hours, has been described as “intense” but is perhaps the most critical part of the creation process. We first get an overview of your firm and gain an understanding of what your firm does, how it’s doing, what challenges it faces and what your plans are for the coming years. Next, we identify and help define your goals and expectations for the website including search engine performance. After gaining knowledge of your business and an understanding of your goals we work to develop a detailed content and functionality outline that will guide us and you in creating the site’s text. Finally we discuss the details of the design, the feeling you want to create, branding integration, photos and all things visual.
Step 2 - Design Mockups
1-2 weeks after the interview and collecting any necessary materials we will present our first set of designs and work through the various elements to explain how and why things are the way they are. You’ll be able to view the designs over the web both during and after the mockup presentation.
Step 3 - Design Feedback - Listen - Repeat
After viewing the first set of designs we will schedule a time, usually in a day or two, to discuss your thoughts and input. We will then take your feedback into account and over the next few days will create the next set of mockups for your review. This process repeats until you are 100% satisfied with the design.
Step 4 - Writing
Whether you pick a design package that includes our writing services or not you’ll always be able to draw upon our experience and expertise in marketing websites and writing for the web. If we’re writing your content we will collect factual information about you and others at the firm and create a first draft of your attorney profiles, firm overview, practice descriptions and other general marketing content. Then, we’ll go back and forth with you to tweak and fine tune until the final copy is created.
If you elect to write your own content we don’t leave you hanging. Our interview from step 1 will provide you with an in-depth content guide and outline, our database of content will give you working samples of relevant text and our final one-on-one review will make sure that your content is as great as the design.
Step 5 - Coding and Assembly
Once the design is finalized and the content is doing well your design will be programmed into a working website and the content we have available at that time will be inserted. The site will then be staged in a private location where you can view the progress.
Step 6 - Final Review and Training
After the website is programmed and staged, we will train you on how to use our website editing software. With this software you’ll be able to continue editing the website’s content, add new pages, reorganize menus and more. You’ll have the control to make sure everything is exactly how you want.
Step 7 - Launch
When you’re ready to go, all it takes is the press of a button. But the relationship doesn’t end there. We at The Modern firm are always available to help you with your website down the road, consult with you for advanced internet marketing even set you up with additional professional hosting services.
