{"id":464,"date":"2013-07-06T01:13:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T08:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/?p=464"},"modified":"2013-07-06T01:17:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T08:17:02","slug":"custom-website-vs-template","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/custom-website-vs-template\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom Website vs Template"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too many\u00a0clients come to me after trying a template website, or do-it-yourself company. They are completely\u00a0frustrated and often have spent too much money either not completing the site, or letting it go month after month and paying a sizable monthly fee.<\/p>\n<p>Template sites from\u00a0 major telecommunication companies (Yellow Book, AT &amp; T, Supermedia) sound simple for a busy business owner, and do-it-yourself\/create-your-own-website companies sound promising to ge you up and running in hours.<\/p>\n<p>There are times when these might be ideal for business owners who are aggressive in learning basic code, SEO and photo editing, or needing something up quickly while developing a custom site.\u00a0 Here is a side by side comparison to help you find clarity in what to choose.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/difference.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-465 alignleft\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" alt=\"custom website vs template\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/difference.gif\" width=\"258\" height=\"33\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/custom-website-vs-template-website.html\">http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/custom-website-vs-template-website.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too many\u00a0clients come to me after trying a template website, or do-it-yourself company. They are completely\u00a0frustrated and often have spent too much money either not completing the site, or letting it go month after month and paying a sizable monthly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/custom-website-vs-template\/\">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":[1,8],"tags":[61,26,4,68,104,105],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smallbusinesswebsite","category-your-first-website","tag-copyright","tag-seo","tag-small-business-website","tag-template-website","tag-web-design","tag-website-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","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=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}