Why would an Indie Author need a website? If you have any doubts about usefulness of author websites and their influence on your career, take a look at what you would be losing out on without building your own author platform!
Advice and Tips on How to Set Up and Grow Your Author Website
If you want to create your own author website but don't know where to start, AWG is here to help!
Most authors would agree that you need a website these days. But it can be confusing and research-intense process when starting from zero. There are tons of technical things to be aware of, like SEO, email list building, Hosting, Domains, HTML, CSS, WordPress, etc… picking the right combination of things can be a total headache! Not to mention time-consuming!
Luckily, setting up and designing your website has become so much easier in 2020! You can set up your site in less than 20 minutes and start designing it with free tools. You no longer need to know coding or computers. There are multiple good website platforms to choose from, lots of inexpensive and good hosting companies to house your website with, and other great resources that save your time.
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Don’t know what technical terms like HTML, SSL, CSS mean? Or what is WordPress? This article details the terms that you should know and understand before doing a website or even hiring a designer.
Creating your website is becoming easier and easier but even with awesome platforms and resources that doesn’t mean mistakes will be avoided. Whichever website creation tool you’ll use, make sure to avoid these blunders.
A step-by-step guide on how to create your website (with screenshots). Learn how to pick the right domain, hosting company and set up WordPress. You can have your website ready in less than 20 minutes and start designing it.
10 Great author website examples
Before diving into actually designing your website, check out these 10 examples to help you with inspiration, ideas. Explanations on why they work well are also included!
Tips and Tricks for designing your author website
This article will share some useful tips and tricks for making your author website design better, prettier and process faster. From one WordPress tool that makes designing super easy to design tips, using these will help you design a better website.
If you’re struggling to come up with ideas for what to write on your new website or blog, here are some content ideas that will help get your creative juices flowing!
Bonus: 9 places where you can get more exposure to your writing and website.
Tips and tricks for maintaining your author website
This article talks about how to maintain your WordPress website, how to make sure it’s secure and loads up fast. We’ll review plugin options to save your time and peace of mind.
Marketing can be scary. Social Media too. Not only because without getting your name out there no one will discover your website and buy your books, but also because it can be hard to choose where to start and what to do. This article talks about marketing basics for social media that authors must know!
This is not the final list of articles. AWG will be maintained and updated every month to keep it relevant and will have more articles, resources and tips added as time goes. The goal is to make this THE most useful author website information source online. If you find it useful, please share this with your author friend who might need help with this!