{"id":4404,"date":"2009-07-29T20:14:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T00:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/blog\/web-design-101-dont-post-your-new-site-with-placeholder-text\/"},"modified":"2009-07-29T20:14:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T00:14:37","slug":"web-design-101-dont-post-your-new-site-with-placeholder-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/blog\/web-design-101-dont-post-your-new-site-with-placeholder-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Design 101 &#8211; Don&#8217;t Post Your New Site with Placeholder Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I&#8217;m a hockey fan&#8230; in fact, I enjoy watching a Maple Leafs game from time to time with my friends.  I also happened to have married a girl from British Columbia and am faced with the on going battle of dealing with her in-laws on the constant &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/canucks.nhl.com\/club\/index.htm\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> are better than the Toronto Maple Leafs&#8221; debate.<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; I concede the point that the Leafs have had their struggles for quite some time&#8230; and that Vancouver is a very fast, talented team with a lot of potential.<\/p>\n<p>BUT<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to web design &#8211; at least the Leafs have their collective <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkinternetmarketing.com\/servicesWebsiteDesign.php\">Web Design<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkinternetmarketing.com\">internet marketing <\/a>heads screwed on straight.  I bet if they were running a PPC campaign, they would most likely use the dreaded &#8220;Test, test, test &#8211; www.test.com&#8221; placeholder text too!<\/p>\n<p>Just have a look at the latest Canucks website launch &#8211; chock full of Latin placeholder text.  Nice one!<\/p>\n<p>If <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Burke_(ice_hockey)\">Brian Burke<\/a> were still there some heads would be rolling!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/canucks.nhl.com\/club\/index.htm\">http:\/\/canucks.nhl.com\/club\/index.htm<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-607\" title=\"vancouver-canucks-the-official-web-site\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sparkinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/vancouver-canucks-the-official-web-site-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"vancouver-canucks-the-official-web-site\" width=\"452\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a hockey fan&#8230; in fact, I enjoy watching a Maple Leafs game from time to time with my friends. I also happened to have married a girl from British&hellip;","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}