{"id":1519,"date":"2009-04-14T11:33:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T15:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:52:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:52:43","slug":"shoot-first-think-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2009\/04\/14\/shoot-first-think-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoot First, Think Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><div style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/monkeypuzzle\/3440513243\/\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Creative Commons License photo credit: monkeypuzzle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>How often is a movie filmed without first writing a script? How often is a book jacket designed without first writing the content?<\/p>\n<p>A website is no different. It tells a story. One of the most common mistakes I find business owner&#8217;s make in their website development is <strong>creating the design before writing the content<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Your website content isn&#8217;t there to fill up your design space. <strong>Determine what you are saying and to who before you find a design to compliment it<\/strong>. The worst thing you can do is write web content for the singular purpose of filling up space. <strong>Decide what content is important first and then create a design that highlights and compliments it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your story, your purpose, your message is the best design inspiration there is.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/monkeypuzzle\/3440513243\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"frame size-full wp-image-14\" title=\"Creative Commons License photo credit: monkeypuzzle\" src=\"\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/shootfirst.jpg\" alt=\"Creative Commons License photo credit: monkeypuzzle\" width=\"458\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Creative Commons License photo credit: monkeypuzzle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>How often is a movie filmed without first writing a script? How often is a book jacket designed without first writing the content?<\/p>\n<p>A website is no different. It tells a story. One of the most common mistakes I find business owner&#8217;s make in their website development is <strong>creating the design before writing the content<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-creativity","category-growing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11116,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/11116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}