{"id":349,"date":"2012-05-14T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2021-11-03T23:58:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T06:58:44","slug":"web-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/web-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contemplating a website?\u00a0 Most websites begin with copy, graphics and photographs.\u00a0 Later you may add slide shows, a bit of Flash, video, audio, a blog and more.<\/p>\n<p>Your page copy will be one of the more challenging aspects.\u00a0 The idea is to be unique in an Internet full of competitors.\u00a0 How do you write something which hasn&#8217;t already been written?\u00a0 Use your own voice.\u00a0 Think about how you run your business:\u00a0quality of your product\/service, training, retraining, even community involvement &#8211; all of these speak to the ethics of your business.<\/p>\n<p>Write as you would talk to a potential client.\u00a0 If you are animated &#8211; let your words reflect that online.\u00a0 Do you use meaningful quote in speaking?\u00a0 Give credit &#8211; include your source.<\/p>\n<p>Read your competitors&#8217; websites.\u00a0 Find things you don&#8217;t like on websites &#8211; then mull over how you would turn that into a positive.<\/p>\n<p>Once you begin your copy &#8211; you&#8217;ll find it isn&#8217;t so daunting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/website-design.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Website Design<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contemplating a website?\u00a0 Most websites begin with copy, graphics and photographs.\u00a0 Later you may add slide shows, a bit of Flash, video, audio, a blog and more. Your page copy will be one of the more challenging aspects.\u00a0 The idea &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/web-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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smallbusinesswebsite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","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=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}