Promoting Your Website with Twitter and Facebook
This post is part of a series with tips on web design for author websites and blogs using the WordPress.org platform. Promoting Your Website with Twitter and Facebook As amazing as your website may be, it doesn’t do you much good if you don’t let people know it exists. Unfortunately, when you set up your website, there is no mass alert to potential readers to come check it out. That’s up to you. To read more, visit Author E.M.S. You’ll need to complete a short Guest Registration...
Read MoreBuild a Great Sidebar for Your Website
This post is part of a series with tips on web design for author websites and blogs using the WordPress.org platform. Build a Great Sidebar for Your Website The sidebar of your website is highly valuable real estate. No matter how many pages or blog posts your readers visit, your sidebar content is on every single one of them. Advertisers pay good money to be featured in sidebars of popular websites, but you have yours all to yourself. Are you making the most of it? To read more, visit...
Read MoreAdding Social Networking Buttons to WordPress
This post is part of a series with tips on web design for author websites and blogs using the WordPress.org platform. Adding Social Networking Buttons to WordPress If you have a blog, more than likely, you have a Facebook and Twitter account as well. It sort of comes with the territory. And even if you don’t, your growing platform will thank you for providing readers the ability to easily share your content using their own profiles. Let me show you a couple of ways to make sure...
Read MoreWordPress Blog Categories and Tags
This post is part of a series with tips on web design for author websites and blogs using the WordPress.org platform. WordPress Blog Categories and Tags Blog categories and tags are a way of separating and labeling your posts to make it easier for readers to find exactly what they’re looking for. These are very useful tools for a blogger. If there’s a #1 rule for web design, it’s to make navigating your site easy, and that’s exactly what categories and tags do. The...
Read MoreFormatting WordPress Posts and Pages
This post is part of a series with tips on web design for author websites and blogs using the WordPress.org platform. Formatting WordPress Posts and Pages Posts and Pages are almost exactly the same in WordPress with very few exceptions. To create a post, find Posts in the left menu of your dashboard. Clicking on the main heading will take you to the listing of your current posts, if you have any (even in you’re just starting out, you should have a sample post). You’ll want to...
Read MoreWordPress Website and Feed Statistics
This post is part of a series with tips on web design for author websites and blogs using the WordPress.org platform. WordPress Website and Feed Statistics Let’s talk about statistics. Face it, no matter how much you’re writing your blog for yourself, what you really want to know is…who’s reading this? Today I’m going to share three plugins with you, all of which I use, to track your website and feed stats. To read more, visit Author E.M.S. You’ll need to...
Read MoreWordPress Themes
This post is part of a series with tips on web design for author websites and blogs using the WordPress.org platform. WordPress Themes Chances are, if you’ve been following along with these posts, you have a website…but it’s not very pretty. The default theme WordPress provides on installation isn’t exactly an eye catcher. Or maybe you have picked out a theme but you’re not in love with it. That’s okay. There are tons of themes out there to choose from. ...
Read MoreBacking Up and Updating on WordPress
This post is part of a series with tips on web design for author websites and blogs using the WordPress.org platform. Backing Up and Updating on WordPress Today we’re going to talk about the most boring part of running your own website but also the most important: backing up and updating. No worries. It’s easier than you think. Backing up your website is just as important as backing up your writing. And you backup your writing, right? Right? In the unfortunate event that your...
Read MoreInstalling WordPress
This post is part of a series with tips on web design for author websites and blogs using the WordPress.org platform. Installing WordPress Now that you have your domain name and your web host, it’s time to put something on it. The WordPress installation will become your blog and your website and if you’re anything like me, your pride and joy. There are a lot of blogging platforms and content management systems out there–some really great ones too. I don’t pretend to...
Read MorePurchasing Domain & Web Hosting
This post is part of a series with tips on web design for author websites and blogs using the WordPress.org platform. Purchasing Domain & Web Hosting It’s the start of every website that’s ever existed: picking a name. A domain name to be more specific. Also known as a url, a web address or “Hey, where can I find your blog?” To get one of these you have to purchase one from a domain host. You’re also going to need a web host to host your website. ...
Read MoreJamie Raintree
Jamie writes what she likes to call everyday fairytale love stories, featuring the little moments in life that are truly magical. She lives in Northern Arizona with her husband and daughter and is currently editing her second novel.
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