Doing research about author websites and looking for some inspiration and examples of well-executed ones. What author sites have you seen that look great? Or are very interesting? Etc?
Good color theme that's easy on the eyes, clear navigation, and it loads fast. When I redo mine, I'll tweak my existing design to flow a bit better similar to that.
Good color theme that's easy on the eyes, clear navigation, and it loads fast. When I redo mine, I'll tweak my existing design to flow a bit better similar to that.
I like Mark's site too! It's built with Divi, a very cool WordPress theme. Easy as chips to knock a site together. For sign-ups, he's used a button that clicks through to a landing page that clicks through to a signup form. Mark, if you read this, I'd suggest embedding the form right from the get-go, fewer clicks for a visitor to go through. Nice flow and graphics!
Good color theme that's easy on the eyes, clear navigation, and it loads fast. When I redo mine, I'll tweak my existing design to flow a bit better similar to that.
I like Mark's site too! It's built with Divi, a very cool WordPress theme. Easy as chips to knock a site together. For sign-ups, he's used a button that clicks through to a landing page that clicks through to a signup form. Mark, if you read this, I'd suggest embedding the form right from the get-go, fewer clicks for a visitor to go through. Nice flow and graphics!
I really like Mark's website.
My website is built with a basic WordPress theme.
How easy/difficult is Divi to work with? Scale of 1 to 10, with WordPress being about a 3?
Thanks.
I admit, it was a pretty big inspiration when it came to designing my own. The artwork on the front page is a huge draw for me. I've yet to read any of her books, but I love visiting her website and it's definitely made me intrigued to pick up one of her novels.
I really like Mark's website.
My website is built with a basic WordPress theme.
How easy/difficult is Divi to work with? Scale of 1 to 10, with WordPress being about a 3?
Thanks.
Steve, if you're somewhat familiar with Wordpress, Divi itself is even easier. It is course a WP theme itself, just a page builder one. I create sites as part of my day job, and I can knock decent sites together in a few hours. In my opinion, it's the design/graphics and overall branding that sets them apart.
I really like Mark's website.
My website is built with a basic WordPress theme.
How easy/difficult is Divi to work with? Scale of 1 to 10, with WordPress being about a 3?
Thanks.
It allows visual editing too so you can create that way too. It's updated very often. Huge huge community around it (plenty of FB groups for Divi users). Lots of tutorials and resources too.
There is a reason over 400 000 people use it(and in the price the plugins are included too which are usefull).
I admit, it was a pretty big inspiration when it came to designing my own. The artwork on the front page is a huge draw for me. I've yet to read any of her books, but I love visiting her website and it's definitely made me intrigued to pick up one of her novels.
I like Emily Winfield Martin's site. She is an artist and children's book author. Her blog is so whimsical and inspirational too, it makes me want to be as creative as she is!
I like that most of the sites work without having to make an exception for them on NoScript. (Elle Wright's fonts are all comic sans without making an exception. A bit of that on Tarryn Fisher's site, too.) This is pretty important for me. It's probably silly, but if I go to a website and it's just a blank page, especially if it isn't for someone I know, I just close the tab. I don't really want to go through the hoops to enable "Wix" or "parastorage" or something strange just to view the site. And if I do really, really want to see that site and I enable authorname.com and it then brings up a list of a dozen other scripts I'd have to enable to make it work, I'm out again. I don't expect every site to work perfectly without their scripts, but if it doesn't work at all, no way. All of these sites displayed just fine. That makes me happy.
I don't see too much need for those these days. It was great some time ago, when it was harder to customise Wordpress themes (less visual editing). This kind of plugin may have saved some time then for sure... but these days it's easy to use WP themes. Thus no need to shell out for a separate plugin.
The plugins don't create something super special or different looking (altho Novelist looks like a nice plugin and has some cool add-ons like integrating GoodReads stuff). It's not a necessary expense.
I like Emily Winfield Martin's site. She is an artist and children's book author. Her blog is so whimsical and inspirational too, it makes me want to be as creative as she is!
Divi has good price, loads of features and huge community so it's just getting more popular. It fits lots of DIYers wants to easily work on design and updating site. That's one reason why designers often choose this theme - it is important to give your clients site that is not hard to update and which theme will not go obsolete.
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