What is a Professional Author Website?

Every author serious about making a career of writing and connecting with their readers, needs an engaging website.

For your readers it means:

Simple, Easy to read and use.

For author websites, it's all about the written content. I believe the focus of the design should be on the content first - no tricky stuff, just good clean design.

Dedicated pages for author visits

Where teachers and librarians can learn a little about you and make a booking directly through your website, your booking agent or publisher.

Loads quickly

Loading time is a big factor in page abandonment. Nowadays people are visiting more sites per day that ever before, but amount of time hasn't changed.

For you it means:

Make changes yourself

Your site needs to change as you do. With a Professional Author website, you can login and easily make change as your info is updated.

You can have a Blog included on your site, with links to Facebook and Twitter.

Four reasons for a blog:
  1. Improves your ranking in Google
  2. Share your passion, inspire other people
  3. Creates a new channel of communication with fans and other writers
  4. More material between books

Most recent author website:

Glenda Millard

Although Glenda already had many titles published, she needed a website to promote them.

The primary goal of the site was to alert readers to her newest works, awards and to events promoting not only her books, but the books of others.

Glenda also has a cottage which she uses as a writing studio and to host literary events such as workshops, writer's retreats and book launches both for herself and other writers. Without a website, the cost and time to promote it would be prohibitive and impractical.

Visit: glendamillard.com

Features of the site:
  • Custom design
  • Animated logo
  • Custom drawn illustrations
  • Self managed News/Blog page
Glenda Millard's home page
Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard

"I'm very happy with the service Jin provided, proud as can be of my lovely website and will happily recommend Jin & Co. to anyone looking for an excellent author website designer!"

Who else has one?

If you're a debut author, you've got a new book coming out,
or you're an established author but your site needs a re-vamp get in touch.

H.J. Harper's home page
H.J. Harper
H.J. Harper

"I was impressed by the thoroughness of Jin’s pre-production process and was able to deliver a website within my timeframe."

Visit Holly's site →
Penny's home page
Penny Matthews
Penny Matthews

"I was looking for an author website designer to create a very simple, basic site that was still attractive and interesting."

Visit Penny's site →
Anna's home page
Anna Branford
Anna Branford

"Based on the quality of his online portfolio and his clear and helpful response to my initial enquiry, I asked Jin to develop my website."

Visit Anna's site →
Karen's home page
Karen Collum
Karen Collum

"His extensive Pre-production Questionnaire really helped to identify exactly what I wanted to portray to my audience."

Visit Karen's site →
Nathan's home page
Nathan Luff
Nathan Luff

"The design process was very up front, well thought out and clearly explained so there were no hidden surprises or costs."

Visit Nathan's site →
Fiona's home page
Fiona Wood
Fiona Wood

"He had plenty of helpful advice, both creative and technical, which makes me another happy client."

Visit Fiona's site →
Lian's home page
Lian Tanner
Lian Tanner

"As a writer of children’s fantasy, I knew I wanted something different in a website."

Visit Lian's site →
Gabrielle's home page
Gabrielle Wang
Gabrielle Wang

"Jin created a site that reflects my personality and the nature of my writing, looks professional and best of all, is simple to navigate."

Visit Gabrielle's site →
Linda's home page
Lina Morgan
Linda Morgan

"I honestly can't think of a reason not to hire Jin, unless you absolutely have to be in the same country. I live 8,000 miles away."

Visit Linda's site →
Karen's home page
Karen Tayleur
Karen Tayleur

"The most excruciating part of the process was the most productive — a questionnaire that Jin had me fill in before the commencement of any work. It left me with a clear idea of who I thought my target audience was and what I wanted from my website."

Visit Karen't site →
Corinne's home page
Corinne Fenton
Corinne Fenton

"I would recommend Jin & Co. highly to anyone looking for efficiency, reliability and professionalism."

Visit Corinne's site →
Vikki's home page
Vikki Wakefield
Vikki Wakefield

"When I started searching for a website designer I felt daunted and a little lost. The result is a website that captures the essence of my style as writer. Jin has that rare quality in a designer – he listens."

Visit Vikki's site →

How does it work?

An author's website project is broken into three main phases, pre-production, production and post-production.

{ 3 weeks of your author website project timeline }

Pre-Production

  • We discuss your requirements and I plan the site
  • I design a mockup of the look
  • You review the design mockups and I make any requested changes

Production

  • I build the site
  • I put in your site's content
  • You review the constructed functioning site and I make any requested changes

Post-Production

  • We test the site to make sure everything works
  • hook up your email
  • do some basic training
  • publish it live to the internet

How much does it cost?

How much it costs is totally up to you.

Even if it's just small for now, the best way to go from here is for you to establish some kind of budget and I can tailor a proposal to fit that budget.

How long does it take?

Typically 3 weeks in real time.

This includes roughly 4 days of actual production time, then add communication between us, time for you to prepare and collect content, time for you to make reviews of graphics or website construction, and me to make amendments based on the reviews.

So roughly 3 weeks.

What else can you get?

Every Professional Author Website comes with:
  • Hosting - Online storage space for the site
  • Domain Name (yoursite.com.au)
  • Email Address - yourname@yoursite.com.au
  • Visitor statistics

Need more? Just ask.

What to do from here?

If you'd like to go ahead, or just want to chat, I can send you a Pre-Production Questionnaire, which along with your rough budget, will help us to establish a more detailed brief.

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