Website - New

[Alistair Roberts]

Well, following on from a couple of inspiring people here, yesterday I started working on my own Author's website here>

So, what do you think? It's certainly a first for me, and I'm not sure how easy it is to read on a phone, but looks clear enough on a pc. Any thoughts appreciated.

 

[Karen Gray]

Hi Alistair, Well done for starting your site Did you do all the photographs? If you did, they are lovely but I would maybe put them in a gallery and have a different background or a floating colour over the top because it's hard to read the text, especially the sample writing. A gallery would still allow for the photos to be seen. Or you could put them in among the text as smaller pictures.

 

[Emurelda]

I can't seem to click on the books. Is it just my computer?

 

[Emurelda]

Think it's working now

I like the photos too. I just think the swiping background is a bit distracting. But a good start for such a short time. Lots of author sites sprouting - I might need to join the fun

 

[Alistair Roberts]

Indeed all the photos are ones I've taken. I'll take a look probably tonight to tweak it a bit, thanks all.

 

[1408]

I agree with @Karen Gray about the text and images. I hope you can put them in a gallery because they are lovely, some of them just make the text a little difficult to read. One other thing, in Sample Writings you've written "excerts" where I think you've meant to put excerpts (ha, even I had that as excrepts just now!). It looks good, though! I can't believe you're on your seventh novel, and moving on to build another world in sci-fi! How cool!

 

[Jennifer Stone]

Great pics and layout, so jealous it's already better than mine lol, on the 'about the author' page if you scroll right to the bottom, there's a sample paragraph and a blank contact form, perhaps these need removing?

 

[Marc Joan]

Nice one. As others have said, the text is difficult to read on some pages, due to the background, and on one page there's a sample paragraph etc which probably should not be there. But it's starting to look good, so well done.
A question for all of you who have made websites; presumably part of the object of the site is to attract readers, so may I ask what you are doing about getting your site moving up the rankings, keyword choice, search engine optimisation etc? (Something I know nothing about, but I guess it needs to be part of a considered marketing strategy).

 

[James Marinero]

A great start - second what others said about the text, keep the slider but a little slower - those are super pics and all visitors should enjoy them IMHO. Book links worked for me. I think I need to overhaul my own site now!

 

[Alistair Roberts]

Thanks folks. I've made a few changes, but although I'm sure there's a way to put a background behind text, I couldn't find it? So I've adjusted some text colour, size and used bold etc..

 

[Karen Gray]

Thanks folks. I've made a few changes, but although I'm sure there's a way to put a background behind text, I couldn't find it? So I've adjusted some text colour, size and used bold etc..

When you have time let me know and I'll talk you through it x

 

[Brian Clegg]

Generally a great site. Suggestions for changes below:

As above, the title words are still difficult to read on the photo backgrounds, and the 'A. N. Roberts Author' bit is too small - it looks more like a comment than a headline.

I don't get the weather section at the bottom of the home page - I think it's best to keep such things relevant to the topic of your website - it just seems rather random.

I would definitely lose the moving images under the 'Novels' page - too distracting. And the page seems strangely empty - it would be good to have a cover picture and a bumf for each title. Also, on the 'Novels' page, the menu bar has disappeared - there is no obvious way to navigate away from it.

There seems a bit of a gap - 'Novels' lists three novels, then 'WIP' lists your seventh in the series.

About page - an author photo would be good. The page doesn't mention your name anywhere. And you've a dummy paragraph from Wix at the bottom.

Sample page - I think I'd keep this to straight text in a single column. As a reader, it seems odd to start with chapter 2. Samples for readers usually start at the beginning.

Trivial thing - the copyright details at the bottom probably need changing! '© 2023 by Nick Martinez'

Hope that helps!