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Foster Pepper & Shefelman
http://www.foster.com
Content: 3Presentation: 6Experience: 4Total: 13
Content: DPresentation: CExperience: DTotal: C

The top half of the home page is quite nice: professional graphics and a short but sweet narrative. But the bottom half is awful: the dual cliches of the Microsoft Internet Explorer button and a (buggy) scrolling-text Java applet. But the worst part is an navigation bar that uses an old server-side imagemap and has a color scheme that can only be described as scary. It may look OK on some monitors, but they appear not to be using browser-safe colors. Attorney profiles were quite in-depth and had a very pleasing layout. This firm (unlike many) remembered to include the name of the firm in the titles of these and other pages, making them more useful to future bookmarkers. Oddly, the firm's many newsletters are buried behind a CGI script, making searching the only way to get to the newsletters (sometimes we want to browse - that's why they call it a Web browser), making the content of those files unavailable to public search engines (such as AltaVista and InfoSeek), making searches on public search engines that would otherwise return links to this site return only links to the competition. Since the majority of traffic is generated from public search engines, we question the wisdom of this approach. A site with great potential, especially if the newsletters were highlighted and the navigation bar redesigned.


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