Googling California attorneys

As posted earlier to a broader audience at the LSNC main website, the Webdogs have created a very simple custom button for the Google Toolbar so that you can use the search box in the toolbar to do a direct name search for California attorneys at the California State Bar site. For our readers in California (or anyone else who wants to try it), if you have a current version of the toolbar installed, just click on Add California Attorney Search Button, follow the prompts and there you have it. To try it out, do a search for “Tony Joe Whi …,” uh, “Anthony Gilbert White.” Folks in California will appreciate the utilitiy of this, since so many of us use the California State Bar site as an attorney “contacts” address book.

This was pretty easy to do by just following Google’s handy-dandy, step-by-step Guide to Making Custom Buttons for Google Toolbar 4. The guide refers to Internet Explorer, but it works with Firefox as well now that the latest version of the toolbar for Firefox supports custom buttons. The “hardest” thing involved is actually not hard at all, assuming you know how to create a custom icon image. The guide provides a link to a site where you can encode your custom icon into ASCII text using base64 encoding.