Because authors deserve professional websites.
Text Prefs — a U.K. design firm is conducting a survey on how people like to read onscreen text. Tell them how you like it! They’ve promised to publish the findings so we can all do better at designing things people read.
The new site I’ve designed for Justine Larbalestier just went live. This has been a great project, and Justine’s been a joy to work with.
I did some tricksy things with WordPress to make the design work, especially on the home page. Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll write about our modifications in more detail.
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How to work with a designer and a publicist.
100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media — great overview of how to use the various social media sites to promote yourself. Password management is key here, since you could be signing up for a dozen services or more. Make a spreadsheet! (via our colleague, Jeremy Tolbert)
How to Make the Worst Website — featuring lots of the things we tell you not to do. Here’s one thing you can do today: if you have a splash page on your site (the kind that shows a big image and says “Enter here”), take it down. Let visitors get to the real home page immediately.
Book Launch 2.0 — hilarious video! Are you familiar with all the sites mentioned? (via JKS Communications)
Before Hiring a Web Developer or Designer — These are four very good questions to ask. “The differences in website quality out there are almost unbelievable, yet from the surface, the part you see, they are equally imperceptible.”
JacketFlap — social networking for children’s and YA authors and illustrators
We are avid readers and web surfers. We have seen good sites and bad sites. We've seen authors struggle with what to put on their sites, how to build them, and where to host them.
We have seen a lot of authors pay too much money for bad websites.
We want to bring affordable, well designed and manageable websites to authors.
We design (and redesign) websites, including:
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