Self-Published Author Website Masterclass

How to Create a Responsive Author Website to Sell Your Books and Engage with Your Readers

4.25 (27 reviews)
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Self-Published Author Website Masterclass
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Nov 2020
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What you will learn

LEARN how to build a mobile responsive author website

LEARN how to create an online presence for your author brand

LEARN how to choose a domain name, set up hosting and install and configure WordPress

LEARN how to create an original, professional looking, mobile responsive website

LEARN how to add engaging content to your website

LEARN how to add a blog to your author website

LEARN how to add a Contact Page and an About Page to your author website

LEARN how to add your library of books to your author website

Why take this course?

The Author Website Masterclass will show you how to create an original, professional-looking, mobile responsive author website, where you can engage with your readers and turn them into fans

One of the biggest hurdles that a new author faces at the beginning of their self-publishing career is that of anonymity.

Fortunately, there are a number of strategies available to self-published authors to overcome this, such as Perma-free BooksLead MagnetsFront and Back Matter PromotionsSearch Engine OptimisationVideo Marketing and Guest Post Commenting, each of which can be very effective.

Central to all of these promotional strategies is an online presence and in particular an author website.

If you have yet to start building your writer platform, then now is the time to do so, beginning with the creation of a great looking author website.

A step-by-step guide to creating a professional responsive website that you will be proud of

In this course, you will get an over-the-shoulder view as I build a responsive author website totally from scratch for one of my niches, step-by-step.

In this way you will learn:

  • How to brand your author website, create a Gravatar, choose a domain name, a hosting package and how to propagate your domain name to your hosting package

  • How to install WordPress, configure the basic settings, install a premium theme, install a premium skin and customise your website to make it look totally original

  • How to choose the correct plugins for your website, add engaging content and of course your library of books.


The building of a mobile responsive author website really is a MUST for every self-published author. And this course will walk you through it every step of the way.

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Reviews

Esmie
December 14, 2017
Excellent course, lots of important information for authors. This course is worth more than I paid for this course. Loving David's easy and clear style of teaching! Keep it going, ​David.
Alan
September 14, 2017
A clear and thorough look at setting up a web hosting package and using wordpress to build a website. Easy to follow.
Cat
January 13, 2017
Extremely well presented, full of detail and well-organized information, the presenter is easy to listen to and the graphics are super. THANK YOU
Kirsten
August 31, 2016
The videos are very well and carefully made. But this course is for absolute beginners, which means people who have never dealt with installing or working with Wordpress before. For more advanced users the videos are far too slow and can get quite boring. Anyhow, if you are an absolute newbie, this is the perfect course for you.
Norman
August 21, 2016
This course is just one long personal commercial. There is always a pitch for some program in web building and always the more expensive one.
Darryl
May 1, 2016
An excellent course. A knowledgeable and experienced instructor and logically structured course content.
Samuel
April 28, 2016
This is the 3rd course I have taken by this instructor and I would probably say that it is his best yet! In the introductory section, there is a preview of the website that you are supposed to work towards (the example is a really interesting site about Slovakia) and then you are basically shown how to create your own author website from scratch. The pace of the course was just about right for me and now that I am about half way through, I already feel confident enough to begin creating a website in my own niche. I especially loved the lectures on creating special recipe card posts and the ones on specialist pages and widgets for your books, as these are going to come in particularly handy for my own site. All in all, a five star course that I would highly recommend!

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