Would you like to be able to add an attorney, their articles, their practice areas, and have the content for the entire web site be updated at once? Would you like to be able to transplant your web content into an Adobe Acrobat Document, a Microsoft Word Document, a entirely new web site, or even into a Palm Pilot.

Welcome to the world of database design. Database design allows your law firm to create a master database, that includes tables, columns, rows of data. This data is linked together using a relationships, whereby one table calls upon another table for information.

For instance, your law firm may have a table inside your database for your office information. This table would of course be linked to your attorneys' information, and their information would be linked to the firms practice area and firm articles.

By using a database your firm can easily update content in one central location, which then updates the content for all web pages.

While database web sites cost more in up front costs, the savings over time in updates can justify the added expense. Further, when it comes time to build a new web site or redesign your existing web site, your firm can simply build a new web site and import the old data.

Now that we have concluded our web design area, feel free to read on about graphics, content writing or SEO; all critical parts of your web presence.