Interesting Opportunity
Hmm, another strange, twist of fate.
So, my lawyer’s office calls to update me on the status of my divorce yesterday, right? (We go to court to get everything signed and stamped by the judge on August 12, by the way.) And then the nice law clerk says that my attorney wants to talk to me about the “web stuff”. Right away, I’m confused. I’m thinking she means the potentially libelous and defamatory statements that my almost ex-wife has made and continues to make on her website, but, since she has an incestuous readership of about five, including herself and her new, er, whatever he is, I pretty well discount her tripe as anything I need to concern myself with at all. So, in my confusion, I simply ask “Web stuff”? And the law clerk tells me that my attorney wants to hire me to optimize his website for the search engines and submit him! Is that a hoot, or what? Not only is this guy about the least expensive divorce lawyer in Houston, but now he’s giving me the chance to earn some of that fee back by playing SEO with his website! I love this town!
Ironically, my attorney, Gary Hinchman, is from Indiana, which is one of the reasons I went with him. I knew that if I could trust anyone, it would be a Midwesterner. One damn Yankee carpet-bagger wouldn’t cheat another, right? Actually, all joking aside, his office has been pretty good taking care of me. Sure, they’ve been hard to reach on occasion, but, his flat fee structure has been real nice and easy to use. And, of course, economical, to boot! So, I haven’t decided what I’m going to do there, since I don’t really do consulting anymore, but the chance to make a little money back from my lawyer is almost too good to pass up!
Well for starters he needs to get a richer photo of himself on the web page. Yikes. Mr. Stripe man.
Comment by IM822 — 8/2/2005 @ 10:43 am
Yeah, that’s sort of what I was thinking. If I do the search engine optimization thing for him, I’ll sure want to redo the rest of the website. The graphics are all, er, cheap. Really fuzzy at the edges and low res.
Honestly, I’m not sure I’ll do it at all yet, but the idea of earning back the fees I’ve paid just tickle my funny bone!
Comment by the Network Geek — 8/2/2005 @ 11:12 am
Wow. This website does need a complete redo. It looks like it was created with an older version of FrontPage. Mission Statements are kind of passe now. That ugly frameborder has to go. The pages are static, so it wouldn’t be overly complicated to give it a new look.
THOUGH, you know, with a little extra effort, a nice CMS(like XOOPS!) would make it really easy for him to manage.
Comment by MightyKong! — 8/2/2005 @ 12:45 pm