Re: Website to promote book

**"* R* <r*@arborsmith.com>**

When I started my web site in 1996 a friend helped get me started with hand 
coding, to learn this all I had to do was look at what was displayed and 
compare this to the source code you can look at any web pages code with 
explore by going to VIEW and selecting SOURCE . Today it is much quicker to 
use a wysiwyg program (what you see is what you get) I use Dreamweaver. It 
is good to be able to read some of the code because occasionally you need to 
get under the hood and fix something.
My book sales are doing O.K. with 2 ways to buy the book a Paypal button and 
a link to Amazon. I prefer folks use the paypal as they take less of a cut. 
I'll soon be adding the Google Checkout button also. I want to make it as 
easy as possible to buy my books
I also note that people can send a check if they don't want to do an online 
transaction. Be sure to add a tracker like statcounter or extreme tracking 
so you can find out where your hits are coming from and if your promotions 
are working at all. Don't bother with the submission service just do it 
yourself on the top 5 search engines. (they will find you anyway)

Good luck with your site.

Richard Reames
www.arborsmith.com

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> Rob asked
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>> > Anyone here using a DIY web design service to promote their  books?<<
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> I used NetObjects Fusion (v. 7) to construct my business site. The
> software is template based, and if you have any experience with
> desktop publishing it is relatively easy to get to grips with. It's
> certainly easier than Adobe InDesign, though not as flexible.
>
> I customised my site with my own logos and pictures. Whichever web
> design program you end up with. It will help if you have some form of
> photo package (like Photoshop Elements) to prepare the pictures that
> you want to use.
>
> My site is hosted by the company that I bought the domain name from,
> and it has been working OK for the last year, though it will be time
> for an update soon.
>
> I picked up the NetObjects program for free on a magazine cover disk,
> as it was a recently superceded version. You can purchase the latest
> full version (ver 10 now) for around $200, which is less than fully
> featured (but complicated) programs like Dreamweaver. Keep an eye
> open for free or discounted versions.
>
> My website is more of an online CV to back up my business, but I used
> a link deep inside the site to my old book on Amazon. In theory you
> get a small percentage of any sales made. However, as Amazon also
> directs to (very) cheap second hand books, the income will be
> minimal. I'll be removing that link in future and selling the book
> either mail order, or looking into on-line direct sales.
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> James Allison
> www.aquapic.com
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