{"id":422,"date":"2007-09-17T08:50:17","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T13:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lillicotch.com\/Blog\/2007\/09\/17\/some-random-thoughts-2\/"},"modified":"2007-09-17T08:50:17","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T13:50:17","slug":"some-random-thoughts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/some-random-thoughts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Random Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When starting a new site try to focus on the big picture. Colors and design are initially more important than actual content. Decide on a logo and try to decide what your major navigation links are going to be and where you are going to place your navigation on the page. Don&#8217;t sweat the small stuff right away. Get the page to look the way you want before you start working on the content.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I check my visitor stats almost every day. The thing that strikes me the most is the statistic or the page views that stand out the most are not what I went there looking for.<br \/>\nThe lesson is check your visitor logs and do it with an open mind. If you do you will find what your visitors want and also what they don&#8217;t want will jump right out at you.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Every source seems to say that the best way to start a blog and get a big audience is to find a subject that is not very well covered already. I guess I started this blog too soon, before I learned that lesson. Even so it&#8217;s still always a good idea to write what you know about.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When starting a new site try to focus on the big picture. Colors and design are initially more important than actual content. Decide on a logo and try to decide what your major navigation links are going to be and where you are going to place your navigation on the page. Don&#8217;t sweat the small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}