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Updating your sites design can be a good idea, especially if your original site was created more then 5 years ago.  Not only can you upgrade the look and feel of the site with a new design, but you can also add additional pages of content, further optimize the site for the search engines and add new elements to the site.  We have upgraded an existing one page site for a Chicago tax law firm to a new WordPress legal site with a new layout and design, new legal images and expanded it with more pages and content.

We created this legal “mini-site” a few years back and it was a basic one page site that focused on the law firms Taxation practice.  We have recently upgraded the Tax Lawyers site design and also created it using WordPress, so its now setup so that the lawyer can easily update the existing pages and add new pages. We also expanded the site to include additional pages of content and have added a blog component so that we can add new recurring content.

If your law firm needs assistance with Attorney web site design or Internet marketing for lawyers, contact Lawyers Court today for a free web site evaluation.

The latest lawyer web design project we are working on is creating a new wordpress theme design for an existing wordpress site. The beauty of creating your website with WordPress is that you can easily change the theme and change the overall design of your site.  Sometimes you might start out with a very basic design and then later decide to upgrade the look and feel of the site.

It’s better to get a basic site up right away and start adding content and blogging and then later on you can always upgrade like we have done here. We created a new theme including a new color scheme, updated logo and different images that rotate on the home page for the Lynnwood Personal Injury Lawyers.

The Lynnwood, Washington Personal Injury Law Firm of Robert Kornfeld handles clients with major personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, car-pedestrian-bus collisions and accidents with trucks, construction and maritime injuries, serious injury claims involving the knee, hip, and spine and those catastrophic injuries, such as burns, chemical exposure, paralysis and quadriplegia, and nursing home or elder abuse cases.  Contact Lynnwood Personal Injury Lawyer Robert Kornfeld for a free consultation. No Recovery, No Fee.

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Creating your lawyer website using WordPress has many advantages including the ability to setup plugins that add different functionality to your site. Its pretty easy to setup plugins, you basically download it, then transfer the plugin to your sites plugin directory and then activate the plugin from within your wordpress admin panel.

One plugin that is very useful is the Broken Link Checker.

Sometimes, links get broken. A page is deleted, a subdirectory forgotten, a site moved to a different domain. Most likely many of your blog posts contain links. It is almost inevitable that over time some of them will lead to a “404 Not Found” error page. Obviously you don’t want your readers to be annoyed by clicking a link that leads nowhere. You can check the links yourself but that might be quite a task if you have a lot of posts. You could use your webserver’s stats but that only works for local links.

FEATURES OF BROKEN LINK CHECKER

• Monitors links in your posts, pages, comments, the blogroll, and custom fields (optional).
• Detects links that don’t work and missing images.
• Notifies you on the Dashboard if any are found.
• Also detects redirected links.
• Makes broken links display differently in posts (optional).
• Link checking intervals can be configured.
• New/modified posts are checked ASAP.
• You view broken links, redirects, and a complete list of links used on your site, in the Tools -> Broken Links tab.
• Searching and filtering links by URL, anchor text and so on is also possible.
• Each link can be edited or unlinked directly via the plugin’s page, without manually editing each post.

Once installed, the plugin will begin parsing your posts, bookmarks (AKA blogroll), etc and looking for links. Depending on the size of your site this can take from a few minutes to several hours. When parsing is complete, the plugin will start checking each link to see if it works. Again, how long this takes depends on how big your site is and how many links there are. You can monitor the progress and tweak various link checking options in Settings -> Link Checker.

The broken links, if any are found, will show up in a new tab of the WP admin panel – Tools -> Broken Links. A notification will also appear in the “Broken Link Checker” widget on the Dashboard. To save display space, you can keep the widget closed and configure it to expand automatically when problematic links are detected.

Download the Broken Link Checker