Square Eye celebrates two ‘Legal Standard of Excellence’ WebAwards for 2024
These awards recognise our continued excellence in delivering innovative, user-friendly and visually appealing digital experiences for the legal sector.
Redesigning your law firm or chambers website: is it time?
Your website is your digital front door, often serving as the first impression clients have of your chambers or law firm. But how do you know when it’s the right time to give it a makeover?
Digital makeovers: 10 reasons to redesign your website
Your website is your virtual storefront, showcasing your brand to the world. As technology and design trends shift, a redesign becomes essential. But when should you make the change—and why does it matter for your business success?
Designing for everyone: the critical importance of accessible web design
It is widely accepted that websites are as important as an organisation’s bricks-and-mortar premises, if not more so. However, not everyone can access and use websites with the same ease.
Email security: new requirements from Google and Yahoo
Google and Yahoo introduced stricter email authentication in Feb 2024. Stronger SPF, DKIM, DMARC and simple unsubscribes are becoming essential for reliable delivery. Now’s the time to review your email setup and stay compliant.
Website healthchecks: 10 reasons why your site needs one
Throughout the year, we recommend a variety of website audits to ensure your website is compliant and gives your users the best experience possible. What better way to start the year than a website healthcheck? Or, more specifically, an on-page technical audit. To…
Sustainable web design
One source of carbon emissions that is often overlooked is the internet and the systems around it. Despite the limited attention it gets, the size of the problem is significant.
Square Eye & Cornerstone Barristers win Outstanding Website at the WebAwards 2023
The Square Eye and Cornerstone Barristers teams are delighted to be awarded Outstanding Website at the 2023 WebAwards (Legal category) for their work on the Cornerstone website.
Avoid costly fines: a guide to image licensing and ownership documentation
Ensure every image on your website is properly licensed, to avoid the risk of hefty fines from stock image libraries and their lawyers.
Sunsetting Universal Analytics
You may be aware that something is going on with Google Analytics. You may have been alerted to this by the banner messages running along the top of your account screen for the past year, or maybe, it was the obnoxious countdown clock that now greets you when you log…
Restricting access by IP address
Restricting access by IP address is a service we offer as part of our suite of security services. Clients on our Standard support package and above are entitled to this as part of their retainer services, but any of our clients can request the increased security…
Why use WordPress for your law firm or barristers’ chambers website?
Why WordPress is the content management choice for most of the Web, and for law firms and chambers of any size (from sole practitioners up to one of the biggest firms in the world).
Do individual barristers need their own privacy policies to be GDPR compliant?
Answers to your individual barrister privacy policy GDRP compliance questions and a review of the solutions open to chambers.
WebAward 2022 winner: Gatehouse Chambers website
Case study on our award-winning site for Gatehouse Chambers, winner of a Legal Standard of Excellence award at the 2022 WebAwards.
Changing QC to KC after the Queen’s death
Many barristers’ chambers’ websites face the task of updating QC to KC after the sad news of Queen Elizabeth’s death.
Are Google Fonts GDPR compliant?
If you are using the Google Fonts hosted service, your website is not GDPR compliant. The solution is to host Google Fonts locally.
Google Analytics 4
Why you should install Google Analytics 4 (GA4) today and run it and Universal Analytics in parallel for the next 12 months.
Privacy & cookies: best practice for compliance with GDPR and PECR
Best practice for compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), and solutions for managing and future-proofing the privacy and consent preferences of your target audience around the world.
Sharing files for a web design project
During a web design and build project, and especially at the start, you’ll probably want to share a number of files with us: photos, logo & brand artwork, text documents, data exports, PDFs and more. But how best to share them?
Choosing fonts for your brand
Fonts may be used in a number of different ways across your marketing materials, but how many do you need, and how should you choose them?
How to capture a screenshot
Things look different on different screens, especially when it comes to the Web: your precise combination of computer or mobile, operating system, browser, browser version, preferences, network, screen brightness and many other factors can mean that a website looks…