Comments on: Marketing with Mandy: Websites–Getting Started http://mandyroth.com/blog/2007/03/17/marketing-with-mandy-websites-getting-started/ Blog for Paranormal Romance Author Mandy M Roth Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:14:38 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mandy Roth http://mandyroth.com/blog/2007/03/17/marketing-with-mandy-websites-getting-started/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Mandy Roth Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:47:17 +0000 http://mandyroth.com/blog/2007/03/17/marketing-with-mandy-websites-getting-started/#comment-23 Hi Dani! As technology goes up, so does the pixels of pages. Right now, I'd say a great rule of thumb is 800 wide x 600. Scrolling up and down is acceptable. Scrolling side to side isn't as grand and can't be done with ease with a trackball mouse so try to avoid going too wide. A lot of people have displays higher than this but this is still a great number to go with for building a site. Hi Dani!

As technology goes up, so does the pixels of pages. Right now, I’d say a great rule of thumb is 800 wide x 600.

Scrolling up and down is acceptable. Scrolling side to side isn’t as grand and can’t be done with ease with a trackball mouse so try to avoid going too wide. A lot of people have displays higher than this but this is still a great number to go with for building a site.

]]> By: Dani Harper http://mandyroth.com/blog/2007/03/17/marketing-with-mandy-websites-getting-started/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Dani Harper Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:22:06 +0000 http://mandyroth.com/blog/2007/03/17/marketing-with-mandy-websites-getting-started/#comment-22 Hi Mandy! Still working on my site in Yahoo Sitebuilder, and can't find the answer to what I thought would be a basic question -- how large (or small) to make my pages. The settings for width and height have numbers only, no hint of what they're measuring in. Any rules of thumb for this? Thanks so much, Dani Hi Mandy! Still working on my site in Yahoo Sitebuilder, and can’t find the answer to what I thought would be a basic question — how large (or small) to make my pages. The settings for width and height have numbers only, no hint of what they’re measuring in. Any rules of thumb for this? Thanks so much, Dani

]]> By: Mandy M. Roth http://mandyroth.com/blog/2007/03/17/marketing-with-mandy-websites-getting-started/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Mandy M. Roth Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:27:08 +0000 http://mandyroth.com/blog/2007/03/17/marketing-with-mandy-websites-getting-started/#comment-12 Hi Dani,   I’m glad to hear the marketing tips are helping out. That’s great that you have your site started! I’m guessing you write for NCP since you mention them in the email. If so, they offer a great coming soon cover image you can put on your spot as a place holder. <a href="http://mandyroth.com/coming8.jpg" rel="nofollow"> http://mandyroth.com/coming8.jpg</a>   The BUY links would be what takes the reader directly to the spot they can click and buy YOUR book. Because your book isn’t out yet and you don’t have an author page on the publisher site, you could link directly to the publisher’s home page. When your book does release, change your buy link to point right at YOUR author page (on the publisher site).   Here is an example   <a href="http://mandyroth.com/wicked_lucidity.htm" rel="nofollow"> http://mandyroth.com/wicked_lucidity.htm</a>   This is for Wicked Lucidity (out with NCP). You can see that I put its book video up top, the ebook and then the print cover of it, award graphic, blurb, one-liner, and I pasted a prologue in for that one (I don’t always put that up, sometime I just link to excerpt). Right under that, you’ll see a couple of links. One is a BUY NOW link. Click it and it will take you to my NCP Author page. I could have bypassed that and gone to Wicked Lucidity’s page at NCP but going to my author page there works too. Now that is a just a hyperlinked word (meaning I underlined the text and added a link to my page and please don’t think I’m talking down to you I just know that sometimes I get going and people stare at me like…what are you talking about lady…lol) but you could make a tiny graphic and write BUY on it and then link to your author page too. Whatever you want. It’s up to you.     Yes, a lot of people put the NCP banners on their site. Those would be linked right to publisher home page.     Hope this helps and good luck with your web building!!!!   Mandy Hi Dani,

 
I’m glad to hear the marketing tips are helping out.
That’s great that you have your site started! I’m guessing you write for NCP
since you mention them in the email. If so, they offer a great coming soon cover
image you can put on your spot as a place holder.

http://mandyroth.com/coming8.jpg
 
The BUY links would be what takes the reader directly to
the spot they can click and buy YOUR book. Because your book isn’t out yet and
you don’t have an author page on the publisher site, you could link directly to
the publisher’s home page. When your book does release, change your buy link to
point right at YOUR author page (on the publisher site).
 
Here is an example
 


http://mandyroth.com/wicked_lucidity.htm
 
This is for Wicked Lucidity (out with NCP). You can see
that I put its book video up top, the ebook and then the print cover of it,
award graphic, blurb, one-liner, and I pasted a prologue in for that one (I
don’t always put that up, sometime I just link to excerpt). Right under that,
you’ll see a couple of links. One is a BUY NOW link. Click it and it will take
you to my NCP Author page. I could have bypassed that and gone to Wicked
Lucidity’s page at NCP but going to my author page there works too. Now that is
a just a hyperlinked word (meaning I underlined the text and added a link to my
page and please don’t think I’m talking down to you I just know that sometimes I
get going and people stare at me like…what are you talking about lady…lol) but
you could make a tiny graphic and write BUY on it and then link to your author
page too. Whatever you want. It’s up to you.
 
 
Yes, a lot of people put the NCP banners on their site.
Those would be linked right to publisher home page.
 
 

Hope this helps and good luck with your web building!!!!

 

Mandy

]]> By: Dani Harper http://mandyroth.com/blog/2007/03/17/marketing-with-mandy-websites-getting-started/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Dani Harper Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:46:18 +0000 http://mandyroth.com/blog/2007/03/17/marketing-with-mandy-websites-getting-started/#comment-11 THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing information about marketing. Most of us newbies haven't got a clue that we need to be proactive in marketing ourselves. I was already making up a website (I bought a domain name - romancingthewolf.com - and went with Yahoo) and it was helpful to go through your suggestions and double-check my content. I haven't published my site yet, still refining things and waiting for cover art for my book, but I'd like to know more about BUY links - I agree with you that readers need to be able to act immediately on their impulses! I've seen some author sites feature a small banner/button for NCP that takes the user straight to the NCP site. Is that what you meant by a BUY link? Thanks THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing information about marketing. Most of us newbies haven’t got a clue that we need to be proactive in marketing ourselves. I was already making up a website (I bought a domain name – romancingthewolf.com – and went with Yahoo) and it was helpful to go through your suggestions and double-check my content. I haven’t published my site yet, still refining things and waiting for cover art for my book, but I’d like to know more about BUY links – I agree with you that readers need to be able to act immediately on their impulses! I’ve seen some author sites feature a small banner/button for NCP that takes the user straight to the NCP site. Is that what you meant by a BUY link? Thanks

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