I have been working with a great nonprofit group in Boston called the Lawyers Clearinghouse on a pro bono basis to redesign their website for the past several months. Along with a friend, Jeff Baker of Partner Alliances, we have redesigned their website and provided them with a way to manage the content using WordPress.

A little about the Lawyers Clearinghouse:

The Lawyers Clearinghouse provides pro bono legal services to nonprofit organizations, groups seeking nonprofit status, and guests of area homeless shelters. We offer lawyers meaningful and rewarding pro bono opportunities. We also provide educational programs for nonprofit organizations and lawyers.

The project consisted of coming up with new creative for the site, creating a custom WordPress theme and carrying over the content from the existing site. From there, the group at the Lawyers Clearinghouse made content updates to get it ready for launch.

Here are a few screen captures of the site we started with:

The original site was very informative but dated. They also required a web designer to make simple content changes for them which made it difficult and time consuming to update the site. The goal of the project was to give the Lawyers Clearinghouse a modern look and provide them with the tools to manage the content themselves.

As a nonprofit, it is difficult to justify costs for web design services. It is equally as difficult to make rapid web changes when you need to work around the schedules of designers who are donating their time. So providing a content management system was key to the success of the project.

Here are a few screen shots of the launched site (live site here):

I want to thank Jeff Baker for his help with this project. The creative (with the exception of the logo) is entirely his work. I also want to thank David Bissett (of Dimension Media) for his custom WordPress theme based off of Jeff’s creative.