Exploring and understanding audience, encouraging communication, announcing excerpts and celebrating book releases. Just basically talking about websites... and the occasional cupcake.
Life is too short to be businesslike ALL the time. And the web offers all kinds of opportunities to break molds. Copywise, we love this apology for the site being under construction. Of course, one wonders why the old site wouldn’t suffice while the new one was being built, but there are always extenuating circumstances.
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I have always believed Flash should be used sparingly in websites. It’s okay for occasional animation — you know, a bit of flash. But as a whole site? I never saw how it was worth it. Its lack of search engine indexing notwithstanding, it is cumbersome to update, and expensive to produce. There always seemed [...]
ROCKTOBER’s NEW BOOKS:
MICHAEL P. SPRADLIN released Jack & Jill Went Up to Kill: A Book of Zombie Nursery Rhymes, the latest zombie book from the makers of It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Zombies and Every Zombie Eats Somebody Sometime. Also from Michael this month is Spy Goddess Book Three: The Spy Who [...]
This month’s NEW BOOKS:
It’s a Maya one-two month! MAYA BANKS released not one but two books: a first and a second. Enticed by His Forgotten Lover, Book One in Maya’s Pregnancy and Passion series. She also released Book Two of the McCabe Trilogy, Seduction of a Highland Lass. AUTHOR WEBSITE BONUS: Trailers, ecards, and [...]
“What is the cost of a basic website?”
“I really need something very basic.”
“I don’t want a big website — just something basic.”
I hear this a lot. Specifically, the “really basic” part.
Unfortunately, there is no such thing anymore as a “basic website”. Any web presence should be — must be customized to fit your needs, otherwise, [...]
