When Florida bankruptcy lawyer Lewis Roberts, who serves Volusia and Flagler counties along Florida’s Atlantic coast, got tired of paying for expensive long-term SEO/hosting contracts and ready for real results, he contacted Rowboat Media for a new Thesis-based custom website design. We were happy to liberate him and his bank account.

Florida Bankruptcy Lawyer Lewis Roberts

Rather than using stock photography of random people looking vaguely relieved or depressed, Lewis asked us to do something “different,” that set him apart from all the templates associated with the big contract companies.

As with all of our recent designs, we created his onsite contact form with Gravity Forms, which stores messages from prospects in the database as well as forwarding them to Lewis’s email, making it convenient for him to look over all of the contacts received in one location in his WordPress content management system. We love how flexible Gravity Forms makes our design process.

And what does the esteemed gentleman himself think?

“Nothing but praise for Cynthia and everyone at Rowboat Media! She came highly recommended and did not disappoint.

I had been bouncing from one website company to another over the past few years. Everything wonderful and glamorous in the beginning, but then the service died quickly.

Cynthia only had a few short weeks to put my website together before my last contract finally ended. I was worried that I would have to ask for revisions, since I sometimes have a hard time deciding on the look and feel of my website.

Well, she did not disappoint because she nailed it on the first try. The look and feel is exactly what I was looking for – which was hard since I didn’t know what I really wanted. As soon as I saw the first draft of the website, I knew it was the final draft.

Everything was quickly put together and I was online and running without any downtime after the old website went offline.

I have already recommended Rowboat Media to other attorneys and am thinking of a website for my wife’s business.

There is no better praise for a job well done than referrals to use the same service. It speaks volumes to Cynthia’s and her team’s abilities.

Thank you!”

- Lewis Roberts – Lewis Roberts, PA – Attorneys at Law

And the bottom line – search results? After not ranking visibly for anything under his old contract, his new Thesis website is soaring up the charts only two weeks post-launch – with several page 1 Google rankings for the keyword phrases he values. I am continually stunned when I see this happen for clients – it never gets old.

Nor do the Muppets performing Bohemian Rhapsody.

Lewis, thank you for the opportunity – we love working with you!

   

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