{"id":5981,"date":"2012-02-27T06:46:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T14:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=5981"},"modified":"2015-09-30T18:54:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T18:54:31","slug":"your-website-is-not-a-shrine-to-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/your-website-is-not-a-shrine-to-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Website is Not a Shrine to Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5946\" title=\"Red Temple in the Moon Forest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/medium_4244017624-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"Red Temple in the Moon Forest\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" \/>You&#8217;re building your website. You&#8217;re telling your developer what you want the site to look like, what you want to be able to do on it. But did you stop and take a moment to think about who the website is for, who is going to use it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your website is not for you, it is for your fans.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your website is to allow your fans to learn more about you, it allows your fans to create a relationship with you, with other fans. It is to help your fans buy your music and product, to find out what your are doing.<\/p>\n<p>Create a website your fans want to use. Your website is not being built as a shrine to yourself.<\/p>\n<h6>photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stuckincustoms\/4244017624\/\">Stuck in Customs<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/photopin.com\">photopin<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/2.0\/\">cc<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re building your website. You&#8217;re telling your developer what you want the site to look like, what you want to be able to do on it. But did you stop and take a moment to think about who the website is for, who is going to use it? Your website is not for you, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,12],"tags":[1397,1398],"class_list":["post-5981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","category-music-marketing-2","tag-buliding-a-website","tag-shrine-to-yourself"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11562,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions\/11562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}