by Nate Hoffelder | Dec 11, 2020 | Design
There’s a problem with how a lot of writers approach writing online; they focus on words. This is a problem because modern web design is based on the idea that text is complimented by images. In fact, most current website themes are designed with the assumption...
by Nate Hoffelder | Nov 14, 2020 | Design
Have you ever announced a new project, only to have people completely misunderstand how it was going to work, or who the intended audience was? I’ve had that happen to me. Back in early 2019 I started a side project where I organized swag bags to be given to authors...
by Nate Hoffelder | Nov 7, 2020 | Design
In the olden days many author websites were set up as blogs first, with a few pages tacked on almost as an afterthought. Web design was easy in that era; you put a column of blog posts on the left, and a sidebar on the right for things like sign up forms, related...
by Nate Hoffelder | Oct 17, 2020 | Design
If there is one thing I have learned in my years of building websites, it’s that laying out a website’s homepage is the single most difficult part of designing a site. It doesn’t matter whether the site is new or years old, choosing what to feature on the homepage is...
by Nate Hoffelder | Oct 10, 2020 | Design
When I started the process to update this site a few weeks back, I wrote out a list of the steps required. Now that the project is done, I decided to go ahead and publish the list so everyone could benefit. I hope this helps you as much as it helped me! * * *...
by Nate Hoffelder | Oct 3, 2020 | Design
The design of your website can be either as generic as the school uniform issued to kids, or as personal as the tailored outfit you put on this morning. The one thing it does not have to be is ridiculously expensive, and that’s a lesson I learned from the field...
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