Are newsletters a must-have for every law office website? No, but for some practices, they can be extremely useful. For instance, an estate practice might send newsletters to trust departments, or a practice with business clients could develop a loyal following with an excellent newsletters. The three leading newsletter extensions are well-planned and easy to set up. Yanc, AcaJoom and Letterman are all available at the Joomla extension site. The newsletters can take a recently-posted article, or a combination of recent articles and include them in a newsletter.
A more complicated and more powerful extension, for which the user has to pay an annual charge, will allow the user to narrow down and target the users who receive a particular newsletter. Community Builder allows the user to ask for a more detailed profile. Then, if the new article has to do with business practices, the firm can narrow the names down to those who own or manage businesses. There are numerous Joomla extensions developed just for Community Builder. That is a more complicated extension than most. Compared to that, Acajoom or Letterman are no more complicated than a normal email client such as Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird.