The most important thing you can do to promote yourself as a author is to have a website. But whether you’ve been writing for years or you’re just starting out, creating and maintaining a website can seem like a daunting task. Luckily, Swank Web Design is here to help with our Author Website Design package.
We use WordPress to create a website that’s completely customized to your needs. Not only does WordPress have an intuitive interface, but we’ll help make adding new books, photos, pages or blog posts as simple as a few clicks of your mouse and keyboard. Whether you want a simple website with a few pages or a larger website with a blog, your site will be easy to maintain, either by yourself or with our continued help. You’ll control the entire site from one easy to use administration area which saves you time and money and lets you focus on the most important thing: your writing!
Swank Web Design has worked with many New York Times and USA Today Best-Selling Authors, we have extensive experience creating websites for:
Whether you need a brand new website with web hosting or just want to refresh your current website we’ll work with you to most efficiently promote your work and broaden your readership.
Starter Author Website
A design-ready, mobile-ready theme customized just for you with a user-friendly, easy to update site that you can manage yourself.
This package is for anyone that wants a simple, professional looking website without a lot of bells and whistles.
Includes:
- Custom logo and color palette
- Homepage + up to 5 other pages (About, Contact, etc.)
- Blog with comment functionality and easy to update sidebar
- Social media buttons
- Contact form
- Site analytics and search engine optimization
- Site security and automatic backups
- WordPress installation and setup
- WordPress tutorial and email support
- 3 months complimentary maintenance
Timeline: 2-3 months
Payment Schedule: 30% up front, 35% upon mockup approval, remaining due upon completion.
Your Investment: $1600
Custom Author Website
A custom designed, mobile-ready website built just for you with a user-friendly, easy to update site that you can manage yourself.
This package is for anyone that wants a fully custom, one-of-kind website with additional branding features.
Includes:
- Custom logo, color palette, and font selection for branding
- Custom homepage + up to 10 other pages (About, Contact, etc.)
- Blog with comment functionality and easy to update sidebar
- Social media buttons
- Facebook cover and Twitter page design
- Contact form
- Newsletter setup with matching email template
- Site analytics and search engine optimization
- Site security and automatic backups
- WordPress installation and setup
- WordPress tutorial and email support
- 6 months complimentary maintenance
Timeline: 3-4 months
Payment Schedule: 30% up front, 35% upon mockup approval, remaining due upon completion.
Your Investment: $2600
All Packages Include:
- A customized post editor created so Authors can quickly and easily add new books, including covers, excerpts, links to booksellers, reviews and other information all in once single place.
- A home page that features your recent and new releases, as well as prominent social media links, blog posts and newsletter sign-up form so your readers can easily connect with you.
- Two custom designed page templates:
- Book portfolio which lists all book covers along with other information like titles, release dates and series.
- Individual book sales pages which include the cover copy, excerpt, review quotes, bookseller links and other information.
- Custom book types – Great for organizing your books by series or type. For instance, each series would have it’s own page with all books in the series listed for easy browsing.
Add-ons:
Premium plugins or scripts – starts at $50
Possible options:
- Photo gallery
- Event Calendar
- Slideshows
WooCommerce shop – starts at $400
Set up a shop on your website to sell you books!
Newsletter setup with matching email template – $150
Mailchimp newsletter template – $100
Website maintenance – $50/hr More Info »
Branding add-ons:
Matching twitter or Facebook cover image – $25
Business cards – starts at $150
Bookmark or stationery design – starts at $100
Hosting and Domains:
Web hosting – starts at $10/month More Info »
Email hosting – starts at $2.50/month More Info »
Domain registration – $17.50/year More Info »
Managed WordPress hosting – starts at $10/month More Info »
You’ll get an easy to use WordPress website or blog and we’ll do all the work of maintaining it to keep it secure and up to date.