Run down the list below (or click here to download the PDF) to learn whether your website needs a redesign.

PaperStreet’s Website Review Checklist:

1. Branding (who you are as a firm or practice)
   • Message: Is your brand message clear?
   • Consistency: Is your brand being represented consistently throughout the site?
   • Logo: Is your logo high quality and is it prominently placed on each page?
   • Imagery: Does your imagery represent you and your brand accurately?
   • Color Scheme: Do you have a solid color scheme, and does it connect with your brand?
   • Tag Lines: Are you using powerful tag lines that engage your user and relate to what they need?
   • Calls to Action: Are these prominently placed on your home page and on your sub pages?
2. Typography
   • Headlines: Are you currently utilizing H1, H2, H3 headlines that are vital to your SEO and information hierarchy?
   • Font: Are your fonts readable and appropriate for your company attitude?
   • Size: Is the size of all of your headline and paragraph text legible and visually pleasing?
3. Layout
   • Layout Width: Does your layout meet the current standard width of 960 px? (we are referring to the active page area, not the background)
   • Modern: Is your layout clean, easy to read and navigate? Does it look fresh?
   • Organization: Is your content (and the sections they are in) well organized within the layout?
   • Home Page: Do you feature your most important content and can your users get a real sense of who you are just by looking at the home page?
   • Sub Pages: Do your sub pages have consistent layouts and is it easy to find pages that are deeper in your site?
   • Footer: Do you have your contact information, repetition of your main navigation menu, and if you are an SEO client, more detailed information on your footer?
   • Navigation: Is it easy to find your main landing pages and sub pages when you are on any given page of your site?
4. Interactive Elements:
   • Main & Side Menus: Do you have an obvious rollover effect or different link color when your mouse hovers over any of your menu items to indicate that it is indeed a link?
   • Show/Hide Features: Do you utilize show/hide or expandable menus to minimize the look of very long content?
   • Buttons: Do you utilize buttons to help guide users through your site?
   • Calls to Action: Do you have effective Calls to Action on your site directing the user to take the action you want them to?
   • Anything Clickable: Are all items that are clickable, including images, links, buttons, etc. made obvious to the user that they can click them?
   • Social Icons: Are you utilizing social media icons on either your header or footer?

How did you fare? If you’re missing three or more of the above elements, it is definitely time for a redesign. It may seem like a lot to measure up to, but in actuality, ALL of the elements listed above are necessary for a successful website.

If you have any questions regarding a website redesign or would like to receive a free site analysis, contact us now.

PaperStreet’s Clients Love Their Designs

• The people at the Hanna Law Office say: “We got our marketing materials together for our conference next week and just thought I’d share with you. Thought you’d like to see how we’ve been using the logo! Again, we’re really pleased with it. In fact, we like it so much we’d like to revamp our website with the new logo and color scheme.”
• Thomas Glansen from FlatFee.com says: “We trust all of PaperStreet’s ideas. We think (our site) looks engaging, astonishing, sexy, attractive and a site that looks better than Realtor.com! The sub pages are insane. Simple, yet aesthetic. Colorful, yet simple. Thank you to PaperStreet, you have outdone yourselves!”
• David Leibowitz from Lakelaw.com says, “The site is really looks great. I love it. I really appreciate your enthusiasm about Lakelaw.com 4.0. The new site is going to be a commercial as well as an artistic success, I am sure. We’re going to do everything we can to draw the attention to our flagship site that it deserves. Thanks for your commitment to this project. I think we can be very proud of our work!”
• Nick Kocian from the Kocian Law Group says: “Our law firm, which has a drive thru, initially made the local NBC news. Photos of the logo PaperStreet created have been on TV. Tonight, we were featured in an Article in the Associated Press. Earlier today, our firm was talked about on 1010 Winns Radio [a prominent NY radio station with millions of listeners]. (Having PaperStreet design our site) will be more important than ever now. Thanks for your continuing help. We are grateful to PaperStreet for making a logo which is now getting National attention.”

PaperStreet Gets Clients Requests Done Fast

• Kipp from m2c2law.com says, “Thank you for the excellent service! I wasn’t expecting results so quickly. I’m a PaperStreet fan for life.”
• Antonio from jimenezlegal.com says, “Excellent work and thanks for the quick turnaround. I’m very happy with my website.”

PaperStreet Gets Results

• Marcia Lippincott from appellatepartner.com says: “Just wanted to say thanks to you and your SEO team for all your hard work. I am impressed with the results as my website is moving up so quickly in the Google rankings. Great Work! Thanks so much.”

PaperStreet’s Designs Win Awards

• January 24, 2011 – PaperStreet Wins Interactive Media Awards “Best In Class’ for their Legal Website: www.hultquistip.com
• January 24, 2011 – PaperStreet Wins Interactive Media Awards “Outstanding Achievement’ for their Food/Beverage website: www.tossed.com
• October 20, 2010 – PaperStreet wins W3 Silver Award for Food and Beverage Website: www.tossed.com
• October 20, 2010 – PaperStreet wins W3 Silver Award for Law Firm Website: >C Humphrey & Associates

The PaperStreet Web Design Team is committed to achieving its clients’ goals, whatever they may be. If you would like to learn more about our Logo Design, Web Design, SEO or Print services, feel free to contact us, and let us help you build out your dream.

You no longer need multiple copies of your marketing materials in MS Word, PDF or your web site. You no longer have to update everything two or three times. Instead, you just update your web site, and it becomes your brochure that you can email as a PDF or print as a MS Word document.

Here is how the process works. First, keep your web site up to date in Total Control. Then when you need a PDF or MS Word copy of your web site, follow these steps:

1. Click on the Proposal Icon;
2. Select the pages you would like to include;
3. Change any text on the pages, and a new copy is saved;
4. Add any new pages;
5. Order the new and old pages; then
6. Generate a PDF/Word Document.

Note:”  We must do additional design work to create the PDF template. The time is anywhere from 2 to 4 hours per work, per template.

• Tell me about your process. Do you start by interviewing us, and learning a bit about what we do, and then create the design? “ Do you start with presenting multiple design mocks?
• Do you work at an hourly rate, or on a flat fee?” ” ”  If hourly, how is it tracked, and how will we be notified of the progress/price?”  What is the frequency of these notifications?” ”  If on flat fee, is there anything that is specifically excluded from this fee?
• What will be required of our team as part of the process?
• How long does your average design project take from beginning to end?” ”  Can the firm provide an estimated timeline with anticipated launch date for our project?
• How many rounds of revisions will we be allowed to make to our design without an additional fee?
• Will we own the design outright at the end of the process?” ”  If not immediately, when?
• Is content writing included?” ”  If so, will I own this copy when the project is completed?” ”  If excluded, what would it cost for writing, editing, proofing etc.?
• Do you have any required ongoing service/maintenance fees?”  How much are they?” ”  How long will the fees be required?” ”  What are they for?
• What happens if in a few months down the road I need to make changes to my site?” ”  What is the process for this?” ”  How much will it cost, about how long can I expect these changes to take?”  Do you have any support timeline or guarantees?

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Take a look and check out some of our political web site designs.

Redesigns:

• Fuerst Humphrey Ittleman
• McConnaughhay, Duffy, Coonrod, Pope & Weaver, P.A.

New Clients:

• Hunter, Smith & Davis, LLP
• Spile, Siegal, Leff & Goor, LLP
• Association of Legal Administrators – Oregon Chapter
• Grant, Fridkin, Pearson,”  Athan & Crown, P.A.
• Kenneth J. Allen & Associates
• Black, Srebnick, Kornspan & Stumpf, P.A.
• Cassata & Hanson, P.L.
• MSA Settlement
• Law Offices of Michael Dye

Check back periodically to see the launchings!

These are the new signings:

- Nolan & Auerbach, P.A.

- Spile, Siegal, Leff & Goor, LLP

- Center for Constitutional Litigation, P.C.

- Laufenberg Law Group, S.C.

- Reifkind & Thompson, P.A.

- The Law Office of Michael P. Granata

- Black, Srebnick, Kornspan & Stumpf, P.A.

- McConnaughhay, Duffy, Coonrod, Pope & Weaver, P.A. (redesign)

- Pietras, Saracino, Smith, LLP

- Shavitz Law Group, P.A.

- Williams Montgomery & John, LTD (brochures)

- Direct Marketing Associates

- The Law Offices of Stanford Berenbaum

- RBSM LLP”  (Direct mailer)

Check back periodically to see the new launches!!!

Here is a list of the new signings:

• The Monts Firm
• Nathan Goad and Wes Probus
• Loree & Loree Attorneys at Law
• French & Casey, LLP
• Mark L. Bodner, Attorney at Law (re-design)
• PBC Literacy Coalition
• Mark & Associates Attorneys
• Clark Skatoff, LLP (re-design)
• Kimmey Law
• The law firm of Schall & Barasch

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