The home page, under Published Works. All four of your books go to an image on my browser. I think they should go to Amazon. The cover is one of the best I've seen lately.
It's a nice site. I would say the main thing your missing is a Call-to-Action
Looks good. I especially love it when authors include their animals, as you did in the opening of WELCOME. Love the header. The only thing that bugs me is the change of font when a nav link is clicked, but I can see why it's done that way.
You're welcome. I don't know anything about wordpress. In wix, text like that is called "animated text." It's an option. You might be able to go into admin and change it--if you want to. Nothing wrong with it.Thanks, Cindyt. I appreciate you taking a look.
Do you mean when you click from page to page, that little...shudder, before the font settles down? I've no idea why that happens.
Hi Muse, first of all, congrats on your first website.
I'm not an expert of Wordpress as I normally use Wix.com to make my websites so I can't give you any "tactical" advice on how to use it but I hope my comments prove to be useful.
As content, I would say it's great. I really love your message on your welcoming page. It's fun and witty and the the pics of your dog are just adorable. (Dog lover over here)
The website per se is nice. Clean and simple but I think it's just too white. White is good but you write mystery and suspense! Make it mysterious and suspenseful!
Use darker colours. Use that nice creepy banner on top as a starting point and work your way down the page.
But that's just my opinion...
You're welcome. I don't know anything about wordpress. In wix, text like that is called "animated text." It's an option. You might be able to go into admin and change it--if you want to. Nothing wrong with it.
Hi Muse,
When I say Call-to-Action, I meant by getting the viewer to do something. What is it you want your viewer to do on your site? How are you going to get them to commit to that action? If you can answer those two questions then you have your Call-to-Action.
Use a contact form, if you have the option. But, REMOVE your email address from your website!
Having an email address on your website (especially a clickable one) is the #1 way to get SPAM. The spammer robots (bots) search websites for email addresses. Once you're on their list, you can never get off.
Reviewers don't usually buy the books they review, they get sent review copies.
Wasn't expecting reviewers to buy the book. I want the viewers of my website to buy my book.
Oooops! Sorry.
I like your site, Cathy! Well done, especially for an initial foray. (Bet you studied up on it.)
I agree that a link to your books would be a good idea on your landing page.
Consider changing the links to blue, perhaps. I didn't know they were links. Might just be me.
My browser is Chrome. Maybe in a different browser the links are already blue?
Eek--I an sooo not a WordPress expert. But you can email them, and they'll get back to you on how to do stuff. Sorry I don't have the link saved--I always have to go through several help screens to find it--but I promise it's there, and the person on the other end will help you.
I think adding a description to your published works would be helpful. Like, having the title, then including the back-of-the-book blurb, or maybe a few sentences that sum up the hook, would entice people to click the buy link. :3
Hey! Not sure if you're still looking for feedback, but your site looks nice! One thing that did jump out at me right away was at the bottom of the landing page where you have thumbnails of your novels (under the Short Stories section), the first two thumbnails are the same size, but the second two are different sizes and don't appear to be on the same row. It's a little jarring.
Also, I'm not sure if this is my browser, but I see a couple of broken image icons: One next to CRIME AFTER CRIME and the other next to WHERE THERE'S SMOKE.
Is it possible to shrink down the font (or make it gray?) in the Goodreads right rail? My attention is drawn more to the right side of the page, because of the black font on white background that's bigger than the rest of the font on the page.
Let me know if you want me to email you screenshots of what I see.