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The Best DIY Website Themes to Build your Writer Website

by Kimberley Grabas

The Best DIY Website Themes to Build Your Writer Website | YourWriterPlatform.com

This is a guest post by Georgie Peru, a Content Contributor for UKWebHostReview on the best DIY website themes to build your writer website. Please find her full bio at the bottom of this post.

More than ever, budding writers are searching for the best website themes to build their portfolio and author websites.

Website builders like Wix, Squarespace, and even CMS platforms like WordPress, are a great way for writers to build their own websites, without much or any coding knowledge.

DIY builders are appealing for many reasons: they’re easy to use, there’s plenty of templates and themes to work with, and most importantly, most website builders offer a free plan or are incredibly good value for money.

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Filed Under: Author Website, Blog, Platform Building Tagged With: author website, Website Design, website themes, writer website

11 Author Website Must Have Elements

by Kimberley Grabas

11 Author Website Must Have Elements _ YourWriterPlatform.com

An author website has a lofty goal: it needs to not just be, but also needs to perform and respond.

No longer just a fancy, static, online business card, it is an author’s ‘homebase‘, a marketing and networking hub and a portal that allows communication to flow between an author and his or her readers.

Visiting an author’s website is one of the leading ways that book readers support and get to know their favourite authors better. The stronger the relationship, the more likely zealous advocates will spread the word about the author to friends, family and peers.

And website visits can translate directly into books sold.

Therefore, even if you are on social media or actively promoting your work offline, operating without a website is just silly. Why invest the time and energy in writing your book, getting it published and developing other marketing strategies only to be absent online? In today’s market, it is a huge drawback and a valuable promotional opportunity missed if your readers can’t easily locate you with a few quick key strokes.

The rub?

Learning how to design a website and incorporating the ‘must have elements’ requires some skills.

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Filed Under: Author Website, Blog Tagged With: author website, Website Design, Wordpress

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