Lawspeed - IT & E-Commerce Contracts & IR35 Advice

[lawspeed]

Lawspeed here!

We had been using the Quick Formations service to form ltd co's for our clients for a long time then heard about this forum. This seemed a good way to keep an eye on what start-up companies are feeling/doing in the industry and the forum also provides an opportunity for us to provide guidance to start-ups and source prospective clients!

Quick summary of us:
Legal & commercial consultancy specialising in recruitment law, contract drafting and IR35 advice. We have a range of ready-to-issue contracts for all requirements in recruitment, technology & e-commerce and are accepted as the country's leading legal advisor in relation to IR35.

Regards,
James

[Webstuff]

Welcome to the forums, I'm sure your knowledge and experience will be greatly appreciated here.

[Rob Holmes]

Hi Lawspeed,

Welcome - I hope you find the forums a useful place and hopefully we can benefit from your wisdom too!

Rob

[lawspeed]

Thanks for your kind words. I guess I could make use of some of you web designers out there - what do you think of our website as things stand? Ddo you think the Contracts for IT & E-Commerce section (http://www.lawspeed.com/others/contracts_for_it_ecommerce.aspx) is buried too deep in the site?

Once you get there we are keen that we are clearly distinguishable from the countless 'template download' sites out there as we are going for an entirely different market of technology companies / SME's that are looking for quality legal contracts with full protection and opportunity for follow-up specialist advice - do you think we achieve this market differentiation?

Any thoughts appreciated.

[top-click]

Hi James - welcome along - anything marketing please ask away,

Best wishes
Rob

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[epiphany]

The website is nice :) It doesn't bowl me over or anything but its hard to do that when you have so much content to get across.

[coxadmin]

Welcome to the forums - there re lots of helpful friendly people on here.

[mylocalentertainment]

Welcome to the forum, the site you've got does look clean and well finished. You might want to have someone look at the contents panel on the page you listed, as in firefox the text in the contents panel is breaching its container and the rest of the page looks so well finished it just lets it down a little.

Good Luck
Regards

Ian

[Ozzy]

Hello James,
Welcome to the forums, nice to see you here :)

I agree with comments above that the website looks clean and well presented. Its very wordy but that is the nature of your service, but I do think the page lays out the different T&C's available clearly (and made me think about this sites T&C's).
I use Firefox as a web browser and do also experience the menu text spilling out of the box into the text of the page, so perhaps that needs looking into especially with the growing popularity of Firefox as a web browser over Internet Explorer.

With the number of IT businesses and other new business owners that use these forums I'm sure your expertise will be greatly appreciated here.

[lawspeed]

Thanks for all the above. Regarding the Firefox - menu issue:
"I use Firefox as a web browser and do also experience the menu text spilling out of the box into the text of the page"

...I can't seem to replicate this on a Firefox browser here - any chance of a screen grab (if forum allows).

The menus are designed to drop down over the content of the page then disappear if you come out of the menu for a short while - what behaviour are you guys seeing on your machines?

[mylocalentertainment]

Hi again

Just been back to the page in Firefox. All I noticed is that the text is overlapping its edge ever so slightly. More then likely you just need to get the width increased of that contents section on the left.

Here is the URL of the page I am looking at;
http://www.lawspeed.com/others/contracts_for_it_ecommerce.aspx

http://www.uk.mylocalentertainment.com/images/screengrab.gif

Hope this helps.
Ian

[lawspeed]

Many thanks Ian, you guys are too kind!

I'll see if our web designers can rectify for Firefox browsers. However they'll probably try to duck out of any extra work by referring us to our own webstats which show only 0.15% of our traffic comes from Firefox browsers.

[mylocalentertainment]

:D This is true, my stats are much the same. But who knows what the future holds.

Get the whip out if they start getting all stats on you.

Regards
Ian

[Webstuff]

Its done in HMTL 4.0 (quirks mode). I use it too, but for something like your navbar I'd cheat and use spaces for the indent. That might rectify your cross-browser difference.

Its worthwhile making the changes though; a growing number of people are using firefox, and all traffic's important, right?

[Alpha]

Hi James and a belated welcome (I've just come back from Cyprus!!)

I know lawspeed well particularly as you have just represented a client of mine so I can vouch for the professionalism of the firm.

Look forward to your input on here.

[lawspeed]

Hi Alpha,

Hope you had a nice break in Cyprus, similar weather to here I trust? Feel free to pm / email me about that specific client you refer to - I can't recall who it is, we have over 100 Revenue cases finalised now (all successfully!)

[VeryMark]

A welcome from me too - I think it's good to specialise and great to talk to an expert!