| Welcome to our review of the McKenna & Cuneo's Web site! Besides the annoying Java scrolling text applet, the first thing we noticed about this site is that the domain name is registered jointly to an individual attorney in the firm and the firm itself. A better approach is simply to register the domain name in the name of the firm. The home page featured a link to the firm's Government Contracts mailing list, an area in which this firm excels, with approximately 80 practicing attorneys in this area. When we clicked on "New Articles" from the "Government Contracts" page, a database-driven interface returned over 50 current articles on this topic. The archives included more than 200 additional articles dating back to 1990. Across all practice areas, there are approximately 148 new articles and 683 archives articles. This is what earns this firm a 10 in content. Site organization is not as good as it could be. For example, the page with new government contracts articles also includes new articles from all of the firm's other practice areas. We'd suggest breaking these up into separate pages by practice areas. Also, bookmark-friendly titles are not used, and with this much content, it's critical to be extremely organized. Otherwise, users will get lost in a sea of content. The graphics are nice, but they haven't been updated in more than a year. Even Yahoo tweaks its graphics occasionally. Also, the omission of text navigation elements (or text alt tags) is annoying. For example, with graphics off, the imagemap on the "Practice Areas" page simply says "Practice Areas Index." Not very helpful. The "Attorneys" page includes a list of all of the firm's attorneys. This makes the page take a long time to load. A better approach would be to load a simple search form to find (by first name, last name, practice area, or office) the attorney you're looking for. Attorney profiles used the narrative style effectively and included links to each attorney's Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Profile page. The search engine output included only the titles of the found pages, and since bookmark-friendly titles were not used, the output is not very helpful. |