William Wright and Son Solicitors have been serving clients in Dudley since 1919 with a broad range of legal services.

Their legal team are all Dudley people and so their local knowledge is pretty well unsurpassed and gives them a real edge over “out of town” rivals. Now they have launched a website for the first time with the help of NetSecrets to make it easier for local people in Dudley and the Black Country to find out about them and see what services they offer. These include:

• Advice on Relationship Breakdown
• Legal Advice on Children’s Issues
• Wills, Probate and Trusts
• Elderly Issues – Lasting Powers of Attorney
• Liquor & Gaming License Advice
• Domestic & Commercial Property Conveyancing

As someone who has dealt with a lot of law firms I have to say they are unusually down to earth and approachable when compared with others I have met. I guess this comes from their Black Country background. I am sure no one need feel intimidated in dealing with this team so if you are local to Dudley bear them in mind if you need any legal advice.

I know it's been a bit quiet here for a few weeks but that is down to a massive effort going onto improving our FASTSMS website and associated marketing campaigns as part of our initiative to grow our business despite the recession.

FASTSMS offers a wide range of internet based SMS text messaging services based on a network of servers in London Docklands that plumbs directly into the UK mobile network. That's what sends and receives the messages anyway.

At the user end there is a web-based sender (think Hotmail); a desktop based sender (think Outlook) and a few other options such as Email2SMS and a Developer API. The API (Applications Programme Interface) enables software to be linked into FASTSMS seamlessly for sending and receiving text messages.

The challenge has been to make the site work for both novices to SMS, who want to learn before committing to buy, and for SMS-savvy people who just want to see the basics and place an order. We've tried to create a natural progression for visitors that lets them branch out in different directions according to their needs. So the first page gives basic info and has easy access to the ordering page but also leads to a more detailed listing of features and benefits for those that want it, then a detailed explanation of pricing and finally screen shots of our interface.

The main sections are:

• Solutions
• Packages
• About Us
• Open An Account

Solutions, for example, is then broken down to make it easy to select between the various options such as:

• Web SMS
• Outlook Integrated SMS
• Email to SMS
• Premium SMS
• and more…

And each solution is then broken down into an overview, a price list, a features list, a screenshot gallery and an ordering page.

Sure hope it work! Will keep you posted.