The issue of establishing a web presence when starting a law firm has been disussed ad naseum and I may not add much here. This post is more of a question to solos out there who are reading this blog. Who do you use as a website and/or blog host and why?
I’ll add that I am in the market for a good host for my yet-to-exist firm website. I am having some difficulty deciding a number of things, including:
(1) the design of the website,
(2) whether it should incorporate a blog in the actual site or just a reference to an external blog in the firm website itself,
(3) how many websites do I need,
(4) when am I going to start the website, and
(5) how much is this going to cost?
Those are the general catch-all questions going around inside my head. I have some time to do this, but I want to get on the ball. My firm will be established in Minneapolis, MN when I pass the Minnesota bar exam. However, I’m already licensed in Indiana and I have clients. So, I could feasibly have a website presence now.
And yet, I don’t know when to start. The debate is whether to start designing a website now or wait until I’m licensed in Minnesota. If I start now, I can simply incorporate my office address and telephone numbers to be Minnesota-centric when I am licensed there. Also, if I start the website now, I have some time to think about it and start building links to it. I can also try and optimize it slowly by starting now.
However, back to the question, I need to decide on a web-hosting service with all the functionality I want first. I need to think more about when is the best time to launch the site and why I am doing it. I will be blogging on my chosen niche areas, but should that be incorporated into my website or not? Any help out there for a fledgling solo about to using technology to start and build a a law firm would be most appreciated.