1. Start with the site and the Pinole service area
A Pinole firm may serve clients within the city, elsewhere in Contra Costa County or across California. Those geographic choices affect what the website contains and how much infrastructure it may need. A site focused on one municipality has a different content footprint from one covering multiple practice areas and locations. The Census records Pinole city as a municipality in Contra Costa County, not as a measure of prospective clients or online demand. Treat that geography as a planning boundary, not a performance forecast. Inventory the pages, media, forms, third-party services and administrative areas that your current site actually uses. Then ask whether the proposed hosting environment is sized and configured for that inventory rather than for a generic law-firm website.
Recommended approach
Bring a current page and dependency inventory to the consultation. Decide which geographic areas and practice areas the site must support, then use that decision to define resource, backup, access and testing requirements.
