Checklist for Your Author Website

Before you (or your web designer) start creating your website make a plan that should cover at least these points:

Checklist for Your Author Website

– Domain Name
– Web hosting
– Programming language **
– Font type*
– Page layout
– Text preparation and editing
– Image preparation for web
– Customer tracking system
– Payment systems
– Usability tests
– Website marketing
– Search Engine Optimization

* Arial or Verdana are available on all computers
** HTML or XHTML & CSS, if you sell your book(s) from your website: shopping cart PHP embedded

Create a quality website, interesting content, be genuine and give your customers value.

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Webdesign books on Amazon:

• Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition, by Steve Krug
• The Web Designer’s Idea Book, Vol. 2, by Patrick McNeil
• Learning Web Design: A Beginner’s Guide to (X)HTML, CSS, by Jennifer Niederst Robbins
• White Space is Not Your Enemy, by Kim Golombisky
• The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, by Jason Beaird
• Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS, by Dan Cederholm 
• Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML, by E. Freeman and E. Robson
• Beginning HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript, by Jon Duckett 

 

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