{"id":3112,"date":"2011-10-14T13:22:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T20:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2015-04-23T14:47:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T21:47:59","slug":"introducing-sparky-happiness-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/introducing-sparky-happiness-consultant\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing: Sparky, Happiness Consultant."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We would like to introduce you to Sparky, a Happiness Consultant, who is building his website with Yola.\u00a0 Each week we will be looking at different aspects of his website and how he&#8217;s using Yola to promote himself.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Today:\u00a0 His homepage, part 1.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Header text and banner:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sparky has used the heading for his name, title and also his phone number.\u00a0 The bold phone number is in the top left-hand side of the website, the most viewed section, so customers know instantly how to get in touch with him.\u00a0 He has used our new &#8216;Edit Heading&#8217; feature to increase the size of the font and also used &lt;br&gt; tags to put the phone number on another line underneath his name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Sparky-Heading1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3152\" title=\"Sparky Heading\" src=\"https:\/\/blogcontent.yola.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Sparky-Heading1.png\" alt=\"Sparky Heading\" width=\"442\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sparky has customized the banner, by uploading his own picture.\u00a0 He used our integrated photo editor, Picnik to re-size and edit the image so it fits the banner perfectly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Navigation:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe navigation Sparky has used is clear and concise.\u00a0 The page names are not ambiguous and will help his customers find the information they&#8217;re looking for quickly and easily.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Spartakoos-Navigation.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3121\" title=\"Sparky Navigation\" src=\"https:\/\/blogcontent.yola.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Spartakoos-Navigation.png\" alt=\"Sparky Navigation\" width=\"531\" height=\"55\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Content:<\/strong><br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll notice that Sparky&#8217;s homepage doesn&#8217;t have too much copy and the copy it has is easy to read and digest.\u00a0 He has used bold headings to divide the paragraphs up and short sentences that are easy to read.\u00a0 He also hyper-linked the calls-to-action (&#8216;contact me here&#8217; and &#8216;services I offer&#8217;) to make them stand out and help visitors navigate around the site.<br \/>\nThe homepage should be used to briefly outline what the site is about and then link through to separate pages which will go into more depth; Sparky&#8217;s site is a good example of this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Sparky-Content.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3145\" title=\"Sparky Content\" src=\"https:\/\/blogcontent.yola.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Sparky-Content.png\" alt=\"Sparky Content\" width=\"603\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Next week: Homepage, part 2 &#8211; Picture gallery, social integration, creating sections and more\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We would like to introduce you to Sparky, a Happiness Consultant, who is building his website with Yola.\u00a0 Each week we will be looking at different aspects of his website and how he&#8217;s using Yola to promote himself. Today:\u00a0 His homepage, part 1. Header text and banner:\u00a0 Sparky has used the heading for his name,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/introducing-sparky-happiness-consultant\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Introducing: Sparky, Happiness Consultant.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8312,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions\/8312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}