One issue often overlooked in web site design is taxonomy, or how the site's directories and files are organized. By far the most efficient way to go is to have directories correspond to the major subsections of your site. If you have "Attorneys", "Publications", and "Practice Areas" as subsections, then your top-level directories should be /attorneys, /publications, and /practice areas. This facilitates site maintenance, and makes it easier for someone else to step in and provide quick changes if need be. With that in mind, we're puzzled about the choices made at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner ("The Intellectual Property Law Firm"). All of the files are located in a directory three levels deep - and each directory is called "finnegan". In other words, the FAQ page's URL is: http://www.finnegan.com/finnegan/finnegan/faqs.html. That's a lot of Finnegans. And they're not needed: if the directories don't do anything to aid navigation, get rid of them. The site's graphics are no more than text in graphic form (which prolongs download times unnecessarily). Whereas last year we liked the "Library" for its copies of articles written by the firm, this year we were not impressed: the articles haven't been updated since the summer of 1998. (One caveat: under "Recent Publications", the firm has provided a handful of articles written by the firm in 1998.)