Lawyer Website Templates for Attorneys and Law Firms
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Tuesday, 03 November 09 - 07:52 AM (GMT) By Ces Catubay in Terapad News |
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We have noticed a significant number of people who create a website for their business and associations ranging from charity organizations, small to large scale businesses, sports enthusiasts, and any one across the board. It is overwhelming to witness their accomplishments on what they started doing.
To continue the ball rolling, we recently launched another set of professional website templates for lawyers. A set of 4 new layouts specially designed for attorneys and law firms that are efficient, easy to use and customize according to your needs. Just like the other templates built, the legal websites have a solid framework fit for nearly any website. Clean, professional and highly functional websites for attorneys giving you the credibility needed to stand out among others. Have a look on the legal websites currently uploaded on the library.
Attorney and Law Firm Website Templates
As promised, you can always start with a free website option to experience how really easy Terapad is to use. The free website package gives you the option to customize freely at no cost for your personal or corporate branding.
Already have a Terapad website and care for a design switch? Simply logon to your cpanel, click the Layout tab > Change/Reset CSS and hit save button to automatically change your template.
Want to change the header for a more customized look? Why not add your firm’s best shot with your co-attorneys on the homepage. Here is an easy guide on how to change your header and footer as well.
Free Websites for Councillors - Do you need one?
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Wednesday, 02 September 09 - 01:51 PM (GMT) By Ces Catubay in Terapad News |
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It’s always a delight to see political figures being accessible online. Besides the fact that you can learn their platform and the change they want for the society, it makes us feel that that they are just one of us. It’s one step of letting people know that they’re listening and they care.
Voters today are intelligent and do a lot of research to look for the ideal candidate. Nowadays, people would probably search a candidate through Google. Needless to say, having a website is one of the best ways to present your platform and promote yourself.
If you are a councillor or a candidate who is looking for a website, our Free Websites for Councillors campaign is the only one you need. You don’t have to invest money and sacrifice too much time to build a professional website. The easy to use content management system will make it easier for you to raise funds, schedule events and get new volunteers for your campaign. Our websites are built in with web 2.0 features to keep up with the demand of the World Wide Web. Your website will be visible in a matter of minutes on most of the popular search engines.
We don’t require anything from you to get started – just a valid email address!. Any political candidate, individual or groups can sign up for a free website. Simply fill up the form and it will show you the next steps to get to your website quickly.
Website feature list:
- Schedule political campaign events. Each website has a built in event scheduler where visitors can view upcoming affairs for your party. Let your supporters stay informed of your public campaign speeches.
- Accept Donations. Raising funds for your run can be difficult. Every centavo counts and donations from different sectors is indeed significant. Why not embed a Paypal button on your website and raise funds from your supporters?
- Blog about the latest news about you. Expect that you will be the spotlight and everyone will watch you. Publicize the latest happenings in relation to your campaign. Broadcast it to the public.
- Open a public forum. Let the people speak and listen to what they say. Each voice can help you improve your political stands. Participating with them can make them feel that you care about them.
- Use your own domain name. The Website comes with a powerful blogging engine with as many Web 2.0 features as you would expect from the market leaders.
- Setup a photo Gallery. Publish photos from your campaign events with your members. Certainly, people would like to see how interact with the public.
- Secure pages for members only. Set restrictions to some of your pages by using the built in protection feature. Protect pages from unwanted visitors with hidden agendas.
- Create pages easily. Terapad's built in text editor is very easy to use and works similar to word processing software. You do not need to study any technical codes.
Free website assistance is also offered to anyone who has signed up for political templates. Click here to check if you qualify.
See some of the few political groups and individuals who overcomed the dilemma and signed up with Terapad.
Vincenzo Capozolli
Newly elected Conservative Councillor Vincenzo Capozzoli has made use of one of Terapad's new political templates to create this great free website. Vincenzo makes use of the CMS system to create a range of web pages dealing with local issues, as well as using interactive features such as the image gallery, events guide, and news feed to keep local residents in Portswood Southampton up to date with all his work.
Simon Menzies
A councillor candidate of Mosman Municipal Council in Australia has used one of Terapad's polical website. He made use of his website for his priorities in politics, issues in Mosman, his achievements and general views.
Jonathan Knott
A Labour councillor of Newham who made use of one Labour Party Template from Terapad. Used his website as a tool for his accomplishments, present the Newham Council, Labour councillors and conduct Pills and Surveys.
Carlisle Labour Party
A website that contains nformation and news about the work of the Carlisle Labour Party and its Councillors who represent the people of Carlisle.
The political party websites for councilors are specially designed for political candidates on mind. We believe that getting a website for councilors from Terapad can help on your campaign and win the hearts of people.
Free Charity Website for Non Profit Organizations
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Friday, 31 July 09 - 11:45 AM (GMT) By Ces Catubay in Terapad News |
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Funding is very important with charity groups. Donations are carefully divided on the important needs first than hiring a designer to create a website for them. More often, they only assign a member to research and build a website from scratch. A fancy website is fine with them – just the mission, vision and alike are there.
Areas of campaigning and donations are nearly the areas that continue to evolve nowadays. Ideally, the internet has a lot to offer with the nonprofit sectors to connect with us. A well built, informative and easy to navigate website can have a huge impact on its viewers. We can now donate with few clicks through applications like Paypal – raising funds for charities has never been easier!
In today’s tough economy, the charity groups need not only your donations but volunteers who can help them raise funds.
Just recently, we added 5 new template designs for charity groups that could help them find sponsors. Many nonprofit groups can come up with websites without the need to hire a designer. It is easy to upload information on the site bundled with good looking designs. It will be easier to raise money from donations whether their aim is to provide food, shelter or clothing to less fortunate.
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Adding third party tools like Paypal donation button would be easy for anyone because of the easy to use tools inside the control panel. Charity groups can also opt to use the other features such as forums for member interactions and set fund raising activities through the events feature. There’s a lot more features installed on a free charity website! If you get stuck, you can always ask for help from the forums and the free support line!
Do you know any charity groups that need a free website? Why don’t you let them know about this and start helping?
2 New Templates for Cycling Websites
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Tuesday, 23 June 09 - 04:19 AM (GMT) By Ces Catubay in Terapad News |
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It has been all wonderful when bikers and cycling clubs started joining the Terapad community. Its gracious to know that these website designs have been a great help for them to share their enthusiasm in the world of cycling.
A week ago, two new cycling templates were added to our design library. The two designs showcase the heart throbbing fun of bicycle racing. The prestige of the different cycling races brought us the idea of sharing this website looks for our champions.
“Cycling Race” and “Bicycle Racing” were the titles given to them as a tribute to the famous heart pounding cycling tours. Fanatics and enthusiasts of biking champions can also make use of these designs to start a website to support their idols. It would be a great way to hook cycling fans to form their own community and participate with their fellow members through the built in forum.
While we bring you these new designs, we’re expecting to bring you more in the future.
Together with USA Cycling, a national governing body for bicycle racing in United States, www.freecyclingwebsite.com was launched. FreeCyclingWebsite.com offers free websites to cycling clubs across USA and get 10% discount on all premium services. Only corporate could afford to build and own websites, but only Terapad and USA Cycling lets you do that without being corporate. Cycling clubs across the country have been searching for ways to get a professional and affordable online presence. USA Cycling took up their cause and searched for a partner in this arena, and chose Terapad as its partner.
Support now available for free accounts
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Monday, 15 June 09 - 09:07 AM (GMT) By Ces Catubay in Terapad News |
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Awhile back, the support feature was only limited to standard and pro accounts. Free account users can only ask for help by asking questions on the forum. At times, some people feel that it takes some guts and time to ask for support.
No matter how easy Terapad can be used, there are unexpected circumstances we can’t avoid. Stuck with editing a design? Changing header image? Adding scripts? Do they sound familiar? You talk, we listen and we respond. Your comments and criticisms help us to determine our weak points and improve them.
Along with the launching of the new website, a contact us for support is now open for free account owners. Yes, that’s right! You can send us your questions through the Contact Free Support Form.
If you haven’t tried this, now is the best time to send your questions. Simply fill up the form with the required information. Make sure that you correctly enter your email address because we will use this to reply to you. We encourage the standards and pro users to use the contact us form located inside your cpanel.
As much as we want to answer all of your queries, please be aware that we are dealing with thousands of requests every day. Therefore, we cannot guarantee to respond to all requests made here especially if the answer to your question is already stated in your cpanel’s help section, our FAQs, forums or how to sections of the blog.
If you need immediate assistance, we also suggest speaking with a Terapad Reseller near you. To know the nearest reseller in your area, please look in the Find a Reseller section.
Welcome to the new Terapad website
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Monday, 11 May 09 - 09:40 AM (GMT) By Justin Dean in Terapad News |
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This weekend saw the launch of the new Terapad website. We are very pleased with the result and would like to thank everyone for their feedback.
We believe that the new system is easier to navigate and presents a cleaner, brighter and more positive image for Terapad.
In addition, and as requested by many Terapad users, we have added the ability for everyone to logon to their own website's control panel direct from the Terapad main website.
Finally the whole system is available in 15 languages, making it easier than ever for people all round the world to create a free website.
- English - www.terapad.com
- Arabic - www.terapad.ae
- Chinese - www.terapad.cn
- Dutch - www.terapad.nl
- French - www.terapad.fr
- German - www.terapad.de
- Greek - www.terapad.gr
- Hindi - www.terapad.in
- Italian - www.terapad.it
- Japanese - www.terapad.jp
- Korean - www.terapad.kr
- Russian - www.terapad.ru
- Spanish - www.terapad.es
- Swedish - www.terapad.se
- Portuguese - www.terapad.com.pt
The Power of Tags on Websites
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Monday, 09 February 09 - 08:05 AM (GMT) By Ces Catubay in Terapad News |
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Tags are keywords used to describe a piece of information published on the web. Otherwise known as metadata, tags make your life easier whether you are organizing your posts or when you’re looking for a piece of information. Tags works best by filtering your posts matched by a common keyword.
Just recently, Terapad adopts the power of tags on the built-in search. Tags are better and more effective because it allows you to categorize and manage the results of a search in your website.
Here’s an example.
You opened a website for your catering business and listed the services you offer. They were categorized as weddings, corporate events, parties, private functions, barbecues. A prospect client visited your website to check if you offer healthy plate options. Upon checking the pages, he realized that there was no information relating to healthy meals. Suddenly, he saw the search box and used it for his query.
Unfortunately, there was no tag for the keywords he’s looking for. He closed the window and looked for other catering services.
The above example relates on how you can make us of tags. Adding a set of tags such as healthy, health, diet, healthy meals, etc., can greatly help. Tags can help you sort relevant information for easier browsing.
How to add tags:
There are two ways on how to add tags on your published articles. You can use both or choose the best one depending on your needs.
First Option: News Tags
Once you’re inside the control panel, click on the ‘News’ Tab. A list of your news items will be displayed on the page. Click on the ‘Edit’ button to add tags on the published items.
The tags box is located on the bottom that looks like this. 
Enter the keywords on the box and don’t forget the save button.
Second Option: Page Tags
Inside the control panel, click the ‘Pages’ tab. Navigate until you see the page that you want to enter keyword. When the WYSIWYG editor is open, click the ‘Search Engine’ tab located above the text editor and the third tab from the left. 
You will see a box labeled ‘Keywords’ wherein you can enter the tags you want to include on your website.
Keywords should be separated by commas. It is best to make the tags relevant to your articles.
You can check out Terapad’s tag cloud with the user-generated tags on the community. Bigger font means there are more posts tagged with that keyword.
Terapad under attack
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Tuesday, 03 February 09 - 08:11 AM (GMT) By Justin Dean in Terapad News |
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Late on Saturday night (GMT) Terapad servers experienced an unusually high volume of traffic and started running very slowly. Engineers were despatched to London based data centre to investigate the problem. What they found was that the system was under a direct Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack.
Our engineers braved exceptional weather conditions and have worked around the clock to bring the system back on line, which I am very grateful to them for. The attack still continues but our security measures are making the effects less obvious. The system remains slow. Further work will take place.
The last time this happened was in November 2007, at that time we were offline on and off for about 4 days. This time we are better prepared. Why people attack us is unknown, although with so many tens of thousands of sites on Terapad it is likely that one of them is the target. Regardless Terapad do intend to deliver all our data gathered by our engineers to SOCA.
If you are a client Terapad Pro account, you may be entitled to a refund under your Service Level Agreement. This will be calculated at the end of February and you will be notified by email with payment being made direct to your Paypal account.
Terapad outsource the uptime monitoring of our systems to IP Patrol. This company is entirely independent to us and in the interests of openness and to demonstrate our commitment to providing good uptime I have included a summary provided by them below.
So apologies once again from the Terapad team, we are doing what we can and remain dedicated to providing a reliable platform for all your websites. Thank you all for your patience.
How to: Use Your Own Domain Name with Terapad
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Wednesday, 07 January 09 - 06:28 AM (GMT) By Ces Catubay in Terapad how-tos |
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Using your own domain name with Terapad is one advantage you can get even with a free website. Having a domain increases professionalism of your website and can improve your search rankings in search engines and gain additional traffic.
In order to use your own domain, you need to follow the instructions accurately. Read carefully below.
First, please understand you'll be making changes to your domain name at your own risk. If you are not comfortable with domain names modifications, we recommend you abstain from making these changes. In fact, should something go wrong, we'll be unable to help.
Terapad is an application platform. We do not provide Domain Name registration, DNS or redirection services, your registrar does. If you don’t already have a domain name we recommend either Godaddy or Enom. Both of these registrars provide good value domain name registration and provide free DNS services. Some domain name registrars will offer you domain name registration but will not provide you with a DNS service. In this case we recommend transferring your domain name to a domain name registrar that does provide a free DNS service (like Godaddyor Enom) or alternatively sign up for a DNS service from a third party like Gradwell or DyNDNS. If you require email to use with your own domain name we recommend Google Mail which, like Terapad, is also free of charge.
Please carefully follow the instructions below in order to set up your own domain. There are two options. We cannot provide assistance in these areas and if you require additional help we suggest you contact a Terapad Reseller in your area that provides Domain Name Registration advice.
Different Domain Name Registrars will have different screen layouts and options, but the underlying theory is the same. We have provided examples using some major Domain Name Registrars, for further assistance making these changes you should contact your Domain Name Registrar or a Terapad reseller.
OPTION 1 - Change Your Host A record
This is the recommended method of using your own domain name with Terapad. It is slightly more complex than Option 2, but does result in a more professional set up recognised my Search Engines and Statistics Packages.
The IP address of your website is currently 84.45.46.82. Terapad does not guarantee that this IP address will stay the same forever. However we intend to do whatever we can to keep it. If our IP address changes for any reason we will provide all Terapad users with as much notification as humanely possible. The notification will appear in your today page. You will need to manually change your host A record if we change IP address.
NB: Terapad will only work for one HOST A record at a time. Therefore if you wanted two websites called http://www.mydomain.com and http://server.mydomain.com you will need to have two Terapad sites.
When you have made the change you must complete the form below and let us know the name of your custom domain, so we can make the final changes on our end and activate your new site address within our system.
We'll update your site address to http://www.mydomain.com/. This will fully replace your old http://mydomain.terapad.com address, which will cease to function. Your control panel will therefore be located at http://www.mydomain.com/cpanel after we made the modifications.
Let's use GoDaddy as an example.
Example of Option 1 – change your HOST (A) Record with GoDaddy
In your "Domain Manager" ensure that DNS Servers are currently set to Go Daddy’s "Default Parked NameServers" . They should look like this:
To change them simply click on one of the name servers and change to "Default Parked NameServers"
Under the "Total DNS" setting in Domain Manager click on the link that says "Total DNS Control and MX records"
First make sure there is no CNAME (Alias) record for "www" ... if there is then delete it by clicking the black cross on the right of the record:
Then on the panel which is labelled "A (Host)", select "Add New Record" . Add a record for ‘www’ and click OK:
The end result will look like this:
Now you must contact Terapad using our dedicated form.
The form is for those who have created a HOST (A) Record in their domain name's DNS and pointed it to Terapad's IP address (currently 84.45.46.82).
When you have submitted the form the following will happen:
a) Our technical staff will check that www.yourdomainname.com is pointed at our IP address.
b) Your Terapad domain name will be changed.
NB: You need to log in to your control panel to located the form.
OPTION 2 - Use a Redirect.
This is not the recommended way of using your own domain name with Terapad. It is not good for your Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and it also stops statistics packages such as Google Analytics from working properly. However if this does not bother you then this is an easy way to get your own domain name working, and does not involve having to contact Terapad.
Domain Name Registrars call their redirect service by different names. You may here it referred to as a 301 or 302 Redirect, an http redirect, a URL forward, or a ghosted or masked redirect. Essentially these are all the same service.
Example of Option 2 – Use a Redirect with GoDaddy
In your "Domain Manager" ensure that DNS Servers are currently set to Go Daddy’s "Default Parked NameServers" . They should look like this:
To change them simply click on one of the name servers and change to "Default Parked NameServers"
On the main Domain Manager Page you will see " Forwarding" and the link that says "Domain is not forwarded" – click on this:
Add in the name of your Terapad site. Using a 301 type redirect will help with Search Engines, but if you are concerned about Search Engine Optimisation we still recommend you use Option 1. In this example we are redirecting to http://mydomain.terapad.com. When ready click OK.
Godaddy will prompt you to let you know that this will take a few minutes to set up, click OK again to acknowledge this and you are done.
If you have followed the instructions carefully, your domain name will be activated within hours. Double check your work before sending a domain change request.
Merry Christmas from Terapad
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Thursday, 25 December 08 - 07:00 AM (GMT) By Ces Catubay in Terapad News |
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