{"id":1332,"date":"2010-10-20T14:03:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T03:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2012-02-23T16:25:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T05:25:17","slug":"lint-lollies-in-your-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2010\/10\/lint-lollies-in-your-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Lint &#038; lollies in your website?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever seen the lint, lolly wrappers and old (hopefully unused!) tissues in the bottom of a handbag due for a clean out?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"handbag or website?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomwomen.com.au\/entry.php?19-A-Handbag&amp;bt=41\" target=\"_blank\">Lea uses that analogy for websites<\/a> &#8211; many have too much old clutter that is hard to find, but are greatly improved by a tidy up. I like the analogy and it reminded me of a particular website.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avsuper.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">AvSuper website<\/a> was old when\u00a0I first started helping the fund with their communications. Initially, I left the site alone and made corrections and updates as required. Even I had trouble finding things on the site and much of it was even repeated on various pages. It really was like a handbag that hadn&#8217;t been cleaned out in a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Once we reached the point of having the look refreshed, I was then able to reorganise the information and make the site more user-friendly. My main priorities were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>make information easy to find through simple navigation<\/li>\n<li>have information on the site only once (creating a smaller site to search, manage and update) and use hyperlinks to share it<\/li>\n<li>keep things simple and not overwhelm people with unnecessary pages and information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So how long is it since you cleaned out your website? Is there a lot of useless information still there that could be deleted? Do you need a refreshed look or some content changes?<\/p>\n<p>PS Of course, this just reminds me I need to make time reviewing my site, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever seen the lint, lolly wrappers and old (hopefully unused!) tissues in the bottom of a handbag due for a clean out? Lea uses that analogy for websites &#8211; many have too much old clutter that is hard to find, but are greatly improved by a tidy up. I like the analogy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,53],"tags":[1132,1131,245],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bit-off-track","category-business-info-tools","tag-clean","tag-navigation","tag-website"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3568,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/3568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}