Web Design

This is a continuation of yesterday's blog post http://lawfirm4-0.typepad.com/law_firm_40_blog/2012/04/if-it-were-really-a-good-idea-.html . . . Tom Fishburne, the Marketoonist, who designed the cartoon I posted yesterday, wrote his own blog post about it. He says something that we've known in legal marketing circles for a long time:

Marketers hear this throughout their careers. Of course, the complete declaration is, "If it were really a good idea, someone would already be doing it." Thankfully, I haven't heard this much in recent years, but I still frequently hear, "Who else is doing it?" (Whatever "it" might be on that particular day.)

When my company, Content Pilot, last conducted the AmLaw 100 Websites: Ten Foundational Best Practices research in Q2-3 2010, there were only four of the country's largest law firms that had mobile apps. A few more had mobile websites, which were typically poorly designed, bare-bones renditions of their big site. (Learn more about the Ten Foundational Best Practices by keyword searching on this blog.) We will conduct the research again this summer, and I expect we'll see more of both.