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How to Choose a Domain Name for Your Website

March 20, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
Knowing how to choose a domain name can save problems in the future.

Choosing a domain name for your website is one decision you don't want to get wrong. It's not so much that there's a big monetary investment. If you're buying a new dot-com domain, you're looking at $10 to $15 per year, depending on your registrar. The real costs of changing a domain come in the effort you put into the site and the value of longevity. Links to your site are important sources of incoming traffic and also an indication of your site's authority in the eyes of the search engines. … [Read more...]

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Website Wednesday: Stacy Parker Aab

March 13, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
Stacy Parker Aab website

Government Girl (affiliate link) author and Huffington Post blogger Stacy Parker Aab has a website worth looking at. Designed by Nina Boesch, the site uses Flash animation in a way that gives the site a little zing, without being distracting. Writer's Website Review When you arrive at Aab's writer's website, you find a clean, simple front page, entirely contained within one screen of your browser. There's no scroll bar. A big image of her book dominates the page. Below is a small image of the … [Read more...]

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Top Ten Website Design Mistakes of a Major Publisher’s Authors

February 20, 2013 by · 1 Comment
Even top authors can have marketing tumbles

I've assumed that traditionally published authors -- particularly the ones published with the big six conglomerates -- must have it all together. I mean, sure, a badly written book might sell 40 million copies, but at least the marketing must be great. Right? Wrong, apparently. I was browsing the author sites listed on the Harper Collins website, and although there were some good ones (that I might get back to, later), some of them were surprisingly unprofessional: ineffective, visually … [Read more...]

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You’re Invited to a Website Weekend at the Oregon Coast

January 31, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
Twin Rocks on the Oregon Coast

Website Weekend, Oregon Writers Colony Colonyhouse, Rockaway, Oregon, Feb. 22-24, 2013 Last weekend, I gave a workshop titled "Planning Your Writer's Website." It was three hours overflowing with information and discussion, and it was all too quickly over. At the end of the workshop, I proposed a follow-up where we would spend a weekend working on our websites. It just so happens that there's an opening at Colonyhouse for the weekend of February 22 (Friday evening) to February 24 (Sunday … [Read more...]

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How Do I . . . Put Images on My Site?

January 23, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
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For the WP-Cycle slider 1. Go to Media in the dashboard menu, then WP-Cycle. 2. Take note of the image dimensions, because these are set in your CSS coding, and a photo that is the wrong size will either look bad or not show up at all. 3. Size and crop the photo in an image editor, such as Photoshop, Gimp, or the free online photo editor iPiccy.com. 4. Go to the top of the page and click "Select file" then "Upload image." It will appear in the list below. 5. There, you can add a … [Read more...]

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