Website Features
Designing great websites for authors has some key differentiators for standard website design, and understanding these are the key to a successful Author Website.
AuthorSite produce a range of web templates specifically for use across a range of genres.
We offer several levels of design depending on how bespoke and unique the author wants their site to look.
All site designs are:
- Fully responsive to work really well on a wide range of devices
- Specifically targeted to appeal to the authors target audience
- Focused on the key goals for site visitors to maximise conversions
- Showcase both the books and the author in a very visually engaging way
- Be fully optimised for search engines using Schema.org markup
- Load fast and look current with best practice in modern web design
Features
Books will be entered and managed in the AuthorSite CMS in a format that is easy to update and fully optimised for authors, this includes specific modules for listing of books:
- Book Title
- Picture Book on background / Cover Image / Back Cover Image / Page background Art Image
- Strapline
- Author Name (with link to author profile page) (Capabile of multiple authors if required)
- Brief book precis
- Full book precis
- Professional Reviews
- Reviewer Name
- Reviewer Publication
- Review Quote
- Review Full Text
- Full Review PDF
- Management of multiple Editions with
- Title
- Format
- Language
- ISBN
- Cover Image
- Purchase Links
- Amazon with Amazon Affiliate ID
- Barnes & Nobel
- Others
- Prices
- Buy Button (and Ecommerce facilites with PayPal or full card processing if required*)
- Facebook Page / Good Reads Page
- GoodReads Review Stream
- Social media like and share buttons
- Facebook OpenGraph book encoding.
- Schema.Org book encoding.
Ability to Showcase latest Title on the homepage
List titles as a grid of book covers or as a more straightforward list with thumbnails titles and brief precis.
In addition to this the website has a full and very robust CMS system that allows you to layout anypage how you like and include a wide range of other features including
- Author Profile
- Blog Posts
- Events
- Training Courses & online learning *
- Image Galleries