Folinskyinla

Hi:

I participate here because I have good clean fun while perhaps keeping people on the right immigration practice. As such, I have never done much in the way of considering BE a marketing tool -- and still don't.

But, I have been working a tad on my sorry excuse for a web-site this weekend. Any suggestions for improvement in editorial content, clarity or mistakes, will be appreciated.

[P.S. -- I asked the Mods if this was OK -- and I was given permission provided that I did not cross the line into self-aggrandizement.]

Again, help would be appreciated.

Manc

general questions.......


Why do lawyers regularly use middle initials?

Why are you an attorney at law, whereas I am not a Truck Driver at Road?




you have your own domain name obviously, but why is your email not [email protected] or some other variation.
when I see a professionals email I often want to see it's a proper email, not a @yahoo or @hotmail domain.

Would you trust an insurance broker who was [email protected]
or [email protected]

I know sbcglobal is hardly yahoo but little things like that can sometimes tip the balance.

Other than that, it's clean and crisp which is what you want to project.

snodog

Looks good, I just have a couple of comments.

The font of your Services page is different from the rest of the site.

Successful Cases page - spelling, Mr F.

de Barden - Since 1961, the requirements for adjustment to lawful permanent residence in the United States had requred having been "inspected and admitted or paroled." There was no requirement of an "entry." In 1996, Congress passed a sweeping revision of the Act which eliminated the word "entry" and replaced it with "admission." Though out the Act, "entry" was replaced by "admission." In Mrs. Barden's case, Mr. Folinsky argued thatt the 1961 definition of "admission" in this particular case remained unchanged and the BIA agreed.

Grushin - a provision that allows the finance's of U.S. Citizens - should that be fiance?

the Korean couple case The visa was soon granted upon submission of the requsite delcarations that this married couple

ian-mstm

It should also be "throughout"... one word!


Yes... and it is also a simple plural, not possessive... so, no apostrophe.

Ian

dbj1000

I'll second Manc's excellent point about your email address. In my view it is totally unprofessional to use a generic free email address for a business such as yours. You should have received email addresses with your domain name. Use them. You can easily have your SBCGlobal email address set up to bounce all emails to that other address, or vice versa.

I also agree with snodog that you need to standardize your fonts. Personally, I think the smaller font on the Services section is closer to what you want. The font on the other sections (with the exception of the Home page) is a little too large. Perhaps choose something in between the tiny Services font and the huge Successful Cases font?

Oh, and standardize what you do with that gray horizontal line in each tab. In Services it's under the text and looks good. In About Us it's before the text... and looks out of place.

Hmm. And sort out some of your pagination and justification:
Looks much better as:
...since you've hyperlinked their names.

Oh, and there's more. Your contact details in the top-right corner of every page over-run the line length available, which breaks up the first line into:
...when it needs to read:
...although this can be difficult to sort out unless you're using Style Sheets, since I may be using slightly different fonts in Firefox on a Mac than, say, someone using Microsoft Internet Explorer on a PC laptop.

NOTE: Based on your fine profession's billing practices, the above means you now owe me $750 plus tax

dbj1000

Oh no! Please at least tell me Mr Folinsky' know's how to use apostrophe's right!

sangiano

Mr. Folinsky,

I would agree with the comments on font size. In my opinion it is too big.

I would also agree that I would expect to see an e-mail address consistent with the domain name, especially in your profession.

In addition:

On the Contact Us page-

"It is recommend to park in the Palladium parking lot or in the building. Street parking limits are strictly enforced."

should be "recommended" or "We recommend that you park....." if you want to sound more informal.

On the Successful Cases page their is an inconsistency in Headings.
Some are fully capitalised lower case e.g. Unlawful Voting, some are part capitalised lowercase e.g. "Inspected and admitted" for Adjustment of Status and some are fully capitalised e.g. ALIENS ARE ENTITLED TO A FAIR HEARING.

In the "Inspected and admitted" for Adjustment of Status section there is a font change within the text.

An alternative to such a lot of information on one page (and the scrolling that goes with it) would be to list the case headings only and hyperlink to separate pages for the detail of each case.
This would also be better for when you need to add further cases in the future.

As a personal preference, I always think fully justified text looks better than left aligned as it removes the ragged right edge.

Good Luck with the website.

hobbes79

http://www.folinsky.com/contact_us

"Please feel free to send your inqiries by telephone, facisimle or e-mail."

And I think "fax" would suffice... you don't have electronic-mail spelled out.

MsElui

on same page dealy in response

On the 'about us' page. The frequent use of 'Mr Folinsky ....' makes it sound very stilted. Coudl you mix it up a little saying His, This practice, or other varied introductions to make it flow more easily?

On the 'successful cases' page. could you put the various titles at the top so the reader can see all the different options (hyperlink them to jump direct down the page to the relevant text) so that they reader doesnt have to scroll down a long page to get to the particular part they want to read. (could also add a 'return to the top' pointer after each body of text).

Also on same page 'The visa was soon granted upon submission of the requsite delcarations '

Ray

And I told Mr F 6 months ago its ...facsimile

dbj1000

Seriously Folinsky, all this input and you don't have the good grace to even respond to your thread?

WTF?

Elvira

Goodness gracious me, djb, where are your manners!!

Poor Stuart's head is probably still spinning from all the excellent advice he has received...

Ray

Scratching his head trying to understand the replies here ..
Like we do with some of his posts ..

dbj1000

I don't have any manners Elvira. You should know that.

...it's a trait I believe we share.

Folinskyinla

Hi:

Just sorting it all out -- and will have the time shortly to work on it again.

Nonetheless, it is appreciated. Thank you all.