Showcase: Law Offices of Donald Detisch
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
The Law Offices of Donald Detisch needed reliable email service and a place to host their existing web site. A recommendation sent them to DTL. Soon, the time came for simple web updates, which I agreed to do. That’s when I first saw red.
Literally, I saw tons of red, and bright yellow and white mixed in for that ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise look. (Put on your peril-sensitive sunglasses and check out the original site.) For a professional law firm, this wasn’t just cheesey. It was cheeseburger!
Junk food ingredients, not the packaging, are what kill you, and the innards of this site were in bad shape. When I discovered that the original designer used Microsoft Word, a tool for cooking up indigestible, fat-ladden pages, I really began to see red. If you build sites by hand, like I do, simple changes to sites like this become a supersized job.
Clearly, this was a site that Ronald McDonald built. But being the (Burger) King of Perfection, I needed to have it my way. So I made a decision to spend those same hours redoing the entire site. The original “condiment scheme” gave way to a richer-looking design. Plus, it’s built on DTL’s standards-compliant PageWorx foundation. So it’s accessible, efficient, and easy to extend and maintain.
The result: The client loves the new look, and I know it’s good for you. Pretty tasty for short-order cooking, and proof that not all fast food is junk food, even on the web.
