{"id":291,"date":"2012-02-12T16:16:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T00:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2012-02-12T16:16:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T00:16:48","slug":"website-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/website-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Website Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your first website is the hardest.\u00a0 What colors do you want for your design?\u00a0 If you have a logo you can &#8220;brand&#8221; the website with those colors.\u00a0 What if you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/custom_website_faqs.html#start\" target=\"_blank\">don&#8217;t <\/a>\u00a0have a logo?\u00a0 Not to worry.\u00a0\u00a0 Many of my clients don&#8217;t have a logo.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t let this stop you from taking your business online.<\/p>\n<p>Some business categories have identifiable colors.\u00a0 The auto industry leans toward red, white and blue color schemes.\u00a0 Medical facilities &#8212; blue tones.\u00a0 There are classic color schemes which are appropriate for business and others geared toward entertainment websites full of bright color combinations.<\/p>\n<p>Try to find 2-3 websites\u00a0 you like.\u00a0 This will greatly\u00a0help your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/website-design.html\" target=\"_blank\">web designer <\/a>\u00a0begin creating your custom\u00a0layout and is a big time saver.\u00a0\u00a0 Getting the color design you are happy with is the biggest foundation step.\u00a0 The better prepared you are the more efficient the website creation process will be.<\/p>\n<p>Color is not your thing?\u00a0 Some of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/custom-website-clients.html\" target=\"_blank\">clients\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0have no idea about color, and happily let me create 2-3 designs for them.\u00a0 They choose one, and we&#8217;re off.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0You can be as involved with the color scheme as you want!\u00a0 It&#8217;s about having choices.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-292\" title=\"RichardAKennedy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/kennedy.jpg\" alt=\"website client\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your first website is the hardest.\u00a0 What colors do you want for your design?\u00a0 If you have a logo you can &#8220;brand&#8221; the website with those colors.\u00a0 What if you don&#8217;t \u00a0have a logo?\u00a0 Not to worry.\u00a0\u00a0 Many of my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/website-design\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[160,104,158,159],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-first-website","tag-how-do-i-choose-my-website-colors","tag-web-design","tag-website-colors","tag-website-design-layout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}