Note to Reader: The Booksnapper Theme is no longer available. However, the Canva design platform is alive and well. I can’t begin to tell you how many frustrating hours, days, and months I worked to create the website header for my original author website. I went as far as to purchase a program called Photo […]
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Building An Author Website Step Eleven: Theme Installation
Note to reader: The Book-Snapper Author theme is no longer available. However, the of the following installation instructions can be used for installing other WordPress themes. In Building an Author Website Step Five, I showed you how to check the WordPress Theme Directory for free author themes via your Administration Panel Dashboard>Appearance>Themes. In Building An Author Website Step […]
Building an Author Website Step Ten: BookSnapper Author Theme
Note to reader: The Booknapper Author Theme is no longer available for purchase. It seems that with each post I write in my Building an Author Website series, the road parts like Robert Frost’s two roads diverging in a yellow wood, and I keep taking the road less traveled by. But believe me, the road you […]
Building an Author Website Step Nine: Your WordPress Theme
Note to reader: The Booksnapper Author Theme is no longer available for purchase. Changing the WordPress theme once you’ve invested valuable time and energy into building and customizing your author website is not advisable. I know because, as I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I learn things the hard way.
Building an Author Website Step Six: Video Review
For a super quick review of what we’ve covered so far in “Building an Author Website” steps one through five, here’s a video created by Daniel Piechnick, a professional web designer and trainer. In less than ten minutes, he’ll explain Domain Name Web Hosting WordPress He’ll then take you step-by-step from purchasing your domain name […]
Building an Author Website Step Five: Administration Panel
This is the day you log into your WordPress.org Administration Panel. For those of you who’d prefer instead to stick with WordPress.com, we part ways here, and I leave you with the following message: WordPress.com is a hosted service, which means that you don’t have to deal with finding a web host or downloading and installing the […]