{"id":1660,"date":"2009-05-09T20:26:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T00:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:52:44","slug":"before-you-start-building-your-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2009\/05\/09\/before-you-start-building-your-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Before You Start Building Your Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><div id=\"attachment_1661\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/brittanylinder\/3488789348\/\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo credit: Brittany Linder<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;re thinking of building a website, consider:<\/p>\n<h3>1. Are you sure you really want one?<\/h3>\n<p>A website is like a pet, you need to make sure you want one before you get one. A site needs to be taken care of, so if you don\u2019t have time or aren\u2019t really committed, don\u2019t bother. You can\u2019t build it and leave it.<\/p>\n<h3>2. What makes your business unique?<\/h3>\n<p>I know this is a tough question but it is important. Your website strategy should be focused around this.<\/p>\n<h3>3. How will you measure the site\u2019s success?<\/h3>\n<p>What do you want out of the website? How will you determine that it was worth the cost and energy to create?<\/p>\n<h3>4. Does the site need to be completed by a certain date?<\/h3>\n<p>It is never a good idea to begin developing a website under tight timelines. It will take longer than you think. There is no reason to rush a project that is so important to the growth of your business.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1661\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/brittanylinder\/3488789348\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1661\" class=\"frame size-full wp-image-14\" title=\"web\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/web1.jpg\" alt=\"photo credit: Brittany Linder\" width=\"458\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo credit: Brittany Linder<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;re thinking of building a website, consider:<\/p>\n<h3>1. Are you sure you really want one?<\/h3>\n<p>A website is like a pet, you need to make sure you want one before you get one. A site needs to be taken care of, so if you don\u2019t have time or aren\u2019t really committed, don\u2019t bother. You can\u2019t build it and leave it.<\/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":[4,202,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-creativity","category-personal-branding-2","category-growing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","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=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11123,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/11123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}