{"id":3190,"date":"2011-10-21T18:03:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T01:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2013-02-19T03:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T10:02:00","slug":"part-2-sparky-happiness-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/part-2-sparky-happiness-consultant\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 2: Sparky, Happiness Consultant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today: His Homepage, Part 2<\/strong><br \/>\nThis week we will be taking a closer look at Sparky\u2019s homepage, and how he\u2019s used some of Yola\u2019s features to create a great website for himself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Picture Gallery<\/strong><br \/>\nA good way of showing your products and services is by using a Picture Gallery.\u00a0 Sparky has used one on his homepage to show himself with his customers, spreading happiness. Sparky put 12 photos in his gallery, but you can add any number of photos to yours.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Sparky-picture-gallery.png\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Sparky-picture-gallery.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3192\" title=\"Sparky picture gallery\" src=\"https:\/\/blogcontent.yola.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Sparky-picture-gallery.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Build credibility<\/strong><br \/>\nSparky has used testimonials and qualifications to confirm his legitimacy.\u00a0 Recommendations from previous customers are a great way of regularly adding more content to your website and they will also help SEO. Potential customers like to hear what existing customers think of a business, and displaying professional qualifications also help to assure customers that you are a legitimate business.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Testimonials.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3193\" title=\"Testimonials\" src=\"https:\/\/blogcontent.yola.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Testimonials.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social Media<\/strong><br \/>\nSparky is using social media to get the word out about his site.\u00a0 He added the Share Me widget to his homepage, which adds Twitter, Facebook and Google+ links \u2013 visitors to his site can then easily share and tell other people about his website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ShareMe1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3195\" title=\"ShareMe\" src=\"https:\/\/blogcontent.yola.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ShareMe1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"59\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Site sections<\/strong><br \/>\nSparky has made good use of the Yola Horizontal Line widget to divide up the content of the site.\u00a0 This makes the content on his site neat and easy to absorb.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/line.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3199\" title=\"line\" src=\"https:\/\/blogcontent.yola.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/line.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"659\" height=\"18\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Footer<\/strong><br \/>\nAt the bottom of each page, Sparky has added a footer with his address and phone number.\u00a0 Putting an address adds credibility and means your website is no longer faceless.\u00a0 The phone number also makes it easy for customers to get in touch with Sparky.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/footer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3201\" title=\"footer\" src=\"https:\/\/blogcontent.yola.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/footer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"56\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today: His Homepage, Part 2 This week we will be taking a closer look at Sparky\u2019s homepage, and how he\u2019s used some of Yola\u2019s features to create a great website for himself. &nbsp; Picture Gallery A good way of showing your products and services is by using a Picture Gallery.\u00a0 Sparky has used one on&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/part-2-sparky-happiness-consultant\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Part 2: 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\/3190"}],"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=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4473,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions\/4473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}