Selected Topics:See Site Map for much more, with descriptions
Tim's Services
Office consults generally, Telephone consults, Separation & waiver agreement consults, EEOC charge help, Sorting out job problems and making complaints, Help deciding what to do, what direction to go, Unemployment Appeals, Litigation, Personal Injury, Fees, expenses, credit cards.
Introductory Topics
Avoid Big Traps
Wrongful Treatment
Contracts-related
Pay and Benefits
Other issues
Background Info
Links to Government Sites
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Follow Up to Tim's Seminar
of 6/12/03
Seminar Materials
SEMINAR MATERIALS: I have scanned the seminar materials. If you want them, email me and I'll send you the file.
Links to useful websites mentioned in the seminar
- Webhosting: I recommend Pair Networks. Here's a link to Pair's comparison chart for the different hosting plans. Notice the $5.95 FTP account - it gives one mailbox and 100meg of bandwidth. I misspoke during the seminar and said this plan costs $8 a month. The FTP account is what I started with. I now use the Advanced account, at $17.95 a month. Pair has an FAQ - Pair's FAQ. Pair's service has been excellent and their servers are reliable, so that my website has never been down, to my knowledge. Knock on wood.
- Domain Name Registration: Pair also runs a domain registration service, at PairNIC.com. I have one domain registered through them, "TimLaw.com". TimLaw is the misspelling that the Yellow Pages made in one of my ads.
- My first and main domain name is "TimsLaw.com" and I registered that through Network Solutions (Verisign), the largest domain registrar (before I learned of PairNIC). No matter who you register with, Network Solutions eventually processes the registration, much like the local telephone lines are Bell's no matter who your "local phone company" really is. Domain names are more expensive through Network Solutions, and the web interface is not as easy as PairNIC. Plus, Pair's service is excellent and they work hard to keep you happy and answer your questions.
- See this link for my page about learning HTML and what tools to use
- Go to Webmasterworld.com to study about how search engines and web design work. But you'll have to register to use the site. Basic registration is free. The site is not for novices. You'll be over your head quickly, until you learn the basics.
- Springfield Missouri Attorney Peggy Hedrick has a nice site, which we referenced during the seminar, at Peggy Hedrick.com. Peggy does the site all by herself, using Frontpage I think.
- The web's dominant search engine is Google. Google has 80% of the search market. For example, when you "search the web" using AOL or Yahoo, you are really searching the web using Google. Once your website gets indexed by Google, you can go to Google and enter search phrases as if you were a potential client looking for info about your area of law. That's how you check your SERPS (see handout) and determine what tweaks you might need. A tweak takes a couple of months to fully propagate though. Search engines don't download and index your site every day.
