As you’re setting up the layout of your author website—or working with a Web developer who’s doing it for you—you will have to decide if you want to include a sidebar. A sidebar is a secondary source of information and navigation to the left or right of a...
Our Secret To The Best In-Person Pitch For Your Author Website (Psst! You Can Use It In An Elevator!)
After countless hours of considering font choices, photos, and editorial selections, you finally have a shiny, new author website. Whether you write books, short stories, or poetry, an author website provides an anchor for your online identity and is an essential...
Web Design Relief’s Links Roundup, May 2014
This installment of our Links Roundup features great tips to help you market your book online. Whether you create your own author website or we create one for you, we want to give you the best tools possible to build an effective online author platform and get your...
Get More Web Traffic: Integrate Pinterest Into Your Author Website
With over 70 million users, Pinterest has become one of the most powerful and engaging social networks on the Internet. At the end of 2013, it was second only to Facebook in generating referral traffic—with more potential to drive visitors to your author website than...
5 Tricks To Get Big Results With Shorter Tweets
Twitter is a phenomenal platform for promoting your author brand. With one tweet, you can quickly and easily distribute important information and update your followers. But when you're limited to Twitter's 280 characters, how can you possibly inform, engage, and...
Web Design Relief’s Links Roundup, April 2014
Happy National Poetry Month! This installment of our Links Roundup features great tips to help you market your poetry online. Whether you create your own author website or we create one for you, we want to give you the best tools possible to build an effective online...
5 Mistakes That Lead To Social Media Burnout: How To Avoid Stress, Frustration, And Exhaustion In Your Social Media Campaign
You find yourself staring glassy-eyed at your computer monitor, your mind a complete blank. The thought of logging into your social media account makes you break out in hashtag-shaped hives. You’ve got it bad, my friend: social media burnout. You might think the...
Who Should You Be When You’re Online? Creating An Author Persona For Social Media
It’s no secret: Most writers are, by nature, a fairly introverted breed. We’re not all PR gurus or marketing wizards. But if you want to be successful in the current publishing industry climate, it's vital that you have an online presence. Otherwise, the chances of...
Web Design Relief Links Roundup, March 2014
You're in luck! This month's installment of our Links Roundup includes great tips on blogging, social media, and fonts. Whether you create your own author website or we create one for you, we want to give you the best tools possible to build an effective online author...
6 Lessons Writers Can Learn About Marketing From Mardi Gras
It's Carnival season in New Orleans, and the countdown to Mardi Gras is in full swing! What does this have to do with Web Design Relief and building your author platform? Plenty! Mardi Gras celebrations are excellent resources for clever tips on how to jazz up your...
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