{"id":188,"date":"2012-01-27T13:47:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T13:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/websorceress.co.uk\/blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2012-01-27T13:47:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T13:47:35","slug":"what-do-i-put-on-my-first-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websorceress.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/what-do-i-put-on-my-first-website\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do I Put On My First Website?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Small Business Website Design \u2013 What Do I Put On My First Website?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>Creating your first website can feel overwhelming and intimidating.<br \/>\nThe words and images on your website are often known as it\u2019s content.<\/p>\n<p>Creating website content can be a daunting task if you\u2019ve never written for the internet. It doesn\u2019t work to just transfer the kind of content you would use offline into the online world.<\/p>\n<p>The internet is an entirely different creation, a completely different medium and you need to really understand how people think in order to write for it well.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start by going over some of the most common and important website pages:<br \/>\n<strong> Home page &#8211;<\/strong> This is the main page of your site. It\u2019s the page people will land on if they type your domain name into their internet browser. So how do you make sure you don\u2019t mess this page up and end up driving people away? Use your home page to capture the attention of your potential customer or client. Call their name by understanding them as a person with a specific need or problem that you can help with. Know their language and use it. Don\u2019t save the good stuff for later because there may never be a later \u2013 get it out there and grab their interest from the start.<br \/>\n<strong> About page <\/strong>\u2013 It\u2019s a mistake to leave this page off your website. People routinely go to the About Page to find out about a company or a business owner. They want to know they can trust you and that you\u2019re a real person. Create a detailed about page that assures their worries and confirms that you\u2019re just the type of business they\u2019ll love to work with.<br \/>\n<strong> Products or Services pages<\/strong> \u2013 Of course you\u2019ll need to showcase what you have to sell. Make sure you clearly state what it is you have to offer and give your visitors calls to action. Don\u2019t just assume people will see your stuff and know what to do next \u2013 spell it out for them!<br \/>\n<strong> Contact page<\/strong> \u2013 Another essential website page that builds trust. Even if a potential customer has no intent to actually content you it\u2019s very likely they\u2019ll check your contact page to confirm you are a legitimate business. Prove your legitimacy by posting your name, position, phone number, email AND physical or mailing address. The location is important because it\u2019s much less suspicious than having no way to track you down physically should problems arise.<br \/>\n<strong> Privacy Policies &amp; Disclaimers<\/strong> \u2013 Legally it\u2019s a smart idea to have some privacy policies and disclaimers added to your website.<br \/>\nEvery website is different. What you write for your site is going to depend largely on your target market and what they respond to. Pay attention to how your visitors react and do what you can to track \u2013 then tweak as you go to improve your content and the response it gets.<\/p>\n<p>By Angela Wills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small Business Website Design \u2013 What Do I Put On My First Website? Creating your first website can feel overwhelming and intimidating. The words and images on your website are often known as it\u2019s content. Creating website content can be a daunting task if you\u2019ve never written for the internet. It doesn\u2019t work to just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/websorceress.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/what-do-i-put-on-my-first-website\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Do I Put On My First Website?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website-tactics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websorceress.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websorceress.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websorceress.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websorceress.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websorceress.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/websorceress.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/websorceress.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websorceress.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websorceress.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websorceress.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}