At Web Design Relief, we know that choosing the right URL or domain for your new author website is just as important as designing and developing the actual website. Your Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is the web address that people will use to find your website on the...
How Do You Spell SEO? Tips to Help Search Engines Find Your Books | Web Design Relief
With thousands of books published every day, one of the biggest hurdles for up-and-coming authors is discoverability. In order to successfully sell your book, an interested reader has to know about it! So how do you get the word out about your book? The experts at Web...
Penny-Pinching Ways To Update Your Author Website | Web Design Relief
It’s important that your author website is up to date, attractive, and properly functioning so visitors keep coming back for more. Web Design Relief has some inexpensive, penny-pinching ways to have an engaging author website without breaking your budget. Affordable...
11 Web Design Tips That Self-Published Authors Must Know | Web Design Relief
Cookie-cutter author website templates with little functionality might be cheap—but “cheap” is still a waste of money if your author website doesn’t actually grow your writing career. At Web Design Relief, we know that self-published authors need a website that acts...
6 New Ways To Get People To Visit Your Author Website | Web Design Relief
Ideally, you’ve designed your author website to project your unique author brand. You’ve maximized your bio, included a list of books with blurbs and reviews, started a blog or newsletter, and provided the necessary contact information. Since your author website was...
Use Your Author Website To Make Readers Care About You As A Writer | Web Design Relief
As a writer, your job is to create a narrative that hooks the reader, raises curiosity, elicits empathy, and leaves the reader satisfied. But have you ever considered how these fundamentals of storytelling can be harnessed to improve your author website? Web Design...
Are People Visiting Your Website And Clicking Like You Want? | Web Design Relief
You just launched your brand-new author website and you’re posting on your blog frequently. Now the question is: How can you know for sure that people are visiting your website—and how can you get more to do so? At Web Design Relief, our designers know all the online...
How To Get Fans To Open Your Emails
For years you’ve been developing a community of dedicated fans and followers who you've convinced to sign up for your newsletter or blog. Yet whenever you send a newsletter, your email marketing provider reports that the percentage of subscribers who actually open...
5 Author Website Issues That Make Visitors Bounce Off In Three Seconds Or Less
A memorable, effective author website will act as your online hub and boost your writing career. But there are Web design elements that can sabotage even your best efforts and send potential fans bouncing off your website. Since visitors will decide in the first few...
How To Identify (And Focus On) Your Promotional Strengths
Your dreams of being a successful, published writer probably didn’t include visions of pounding the pavement and sending out email blasts, trying to sell your book. But whether you're traditionally published or self-published, doing your own marketing is the new...
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Working with the Web Design Relief team was a total pleasure. They made the process easy, in-depth, professional, and lyrical. I wanted a site that leaned toward the bohemian and yet held an edge of minimalist sophistication. I couldn’t be happier with my very inviting and creative site! We should win awards with this one!
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I cannot possibly detail how professional and helpful Web Design Relief has been in helping me launch my collection of short stories—there are just too many things they have done! They’ve been there for me all along the way, guiding me in developing my book and into the 21st century of web design and social media platforms. It could have been a bewildering journey; Instead it was one that was organized and so pleasant. Truly, Web Design Relief has blown me away by what they have created. The first time I watched my book trailer (who knew there were book trailers?), I cried. That team perfectly imaged what my book is about. I want to thank the whole team for their skill and creativity. I appreciate it so much.
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I’m pleased with the look of my website. The team at Web Design Relief listened to my suggestions and added a few of their own to make my website look exactly how I envisioned it. I would definitely recommend using Web Design Relief if you are looking to create a website.
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