Using Parallax Pro theme to create pages with lots of information, while also creating pages like this one on a known sperm donor contract.
Whether you are a lawyer doing website design, or a web designer doing lawyer’s websites, you have the same goal: to create a site that is functional, beautiful and provides the information that the user needs. This can be tricky for a lawyer specializing in a complicated area of law, which might require pages of explanation, like a known sperm donor contract. While there might be a few hundred, or even thousands of words to explain a process or how a contract works (it’s a contract that there will be no contact between the known sperm donor and the child (or children) that were born after the existing donor sperm was used), there would also be numerous pieces of information that are possibly needed by the user. And in addition to that information, there could also be links to other parts of the website and social media sharing links that need to appear above, below and on both sides of the central known sperm donor contract explanation.
How to make sure the important information is included, while also being able to account for the color schemes designed into the website itself? You may have certain colors you want to use, but sometimes a page might be too black, or have too much white. The answer can be as simple as making sure you have the right theme in place. For example, Parallax Pro Theme features a number of different customizable backgrounds that can help you reduce the amount of black and white that the user sees, without going overboard on colors and design elements that don’t make a lot of sense.
For example, in addition to the normal styles, there are a number of templates that allow for a side bar, full width content, a footer bar, and the ability to have a background color or image added to the content area, and another background color or image for the site itself. Of course, you also need to make sure you have a good system for deciding what goes where. For example, for a known sperm donor contract page, it’s important to include:
- The known sperm donor contract above the fold (the first portion that everyone sees when they visit the website, without having to scroll down).
- An explanation of the facts that led the sperm donor and mother to agree to this legal arrangement.
- Why some of the things that would normally be included by a lawyer in a known sperm donor contract may not be included.
- How the donor will be kept anonymous, or if the donor wants a relationship with the child, what is created, and what happens to that contract, when the child reaches a particular age.
- Whether or not a second donor will be needed should several months pass by without conception (that’s the best decision for the family involved).
In addition to including all of this information, there also needs to be links to the main contacts page, a way to share the page via social media, a link to email the page to another party, and the ability to comment on the process and ask additional questions, if necessary. Of course, there’s also the ability to include a contact form, social media sharing buttons, and the donation tool that can help support various charities and causes.
For more information on sperm donation laws and regulations, you can visit this article on the National Institutes of Health website.