{"id":1781,"date":"2007-03-15T07:11:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T15:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/your-websites-hiddenvalue"},"modified":"2017-01-20T12:49:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T20:49:03","slug":"your-websites-hiddenvalue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/your-websites-hiddenvalue\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Website’s Hidden Value"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most difficult aspects of discussing a website, for us, is talking about the \u201csource code\u201d of the pages. The problem is that if you\u2019re not a web designer, you\u2019re probably not even going to know what we\u2019re talking about! You can\u2019t see the source code \u2013 where is it? I could tell you that your website\u2019s source code looks terrible, or I could tell you that it\u2019s wonderful and was clearly written lovingly, by hand, and was the work of a consummate professional. But you\u2019re not going to see a difference, and it\u2019s quite possible that a well-written website can cost you more<\/strong> \u2013 in the short term.<\/p>\n

So if you can\u2019t see any difference, how do you know one is there? How do you, a potential Needmore Designs client and generally savvy individual, tell the difference? Does it even matter?<\/p>\n

Last year we bought a new house. We found one we really liked, but you\u2019d have to be a crazy person to just buy it based on what you observe about the house. What you do is get a home inspector to come by and go over the house with a fine-tooth comb. They check your water, your wiring, your roof, the siding of your house, and so on. And as anyone who has bought a home knows, these things can often need repair.<\/p>\n

It is much the same with a website. While negligence in this department may not cause a fire, it can have lots of unintended consequences. We sometimes see these when we take over a website project from another designer. The site may have been written long ago, or the designer might have used software such as Dreamweaver or GoLive. Working on a site like this is like looking at wiring on a 100 year old house that has never been upgraded. It\u2019s terrible, it looks dangerous, and unless you\u2019re willing to overhaul the wiring, working on it takes far more effort<\/strong> than it should.<\/p>\n

Being conscientious about the code that makes up a website isn\u2019t easy. But it adds a lot of value to your website. It makes updates easier, it makes handing it off to other designers easier, search engines like it better, the pages load faster, folks with disabilities have an easier time using it\u2026 the list goes on. We consider it good business sense, plain and simple.<\/p>\n

So next time you\u2019re evaluating designers for your website, do take this into account. Even if you don\u2019t hire Needmore Designs, you\u2019ll be making the world a better place if you understand the hidden value of your site\u2019s HTML.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Talking about source code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}