Web Design
For any upstart author, owning a well-designed website is the single most important move in selling a book. A website exponentially increases the visibility, market reach, and promotional power of any book marketing campaign, and facilitates the connection between the author and the clientele in a professional and convenient method — a very pivotal aspect in today’s book-selling industry.
In addition, a customized website efficiently serves as an affordable, highly-effective support system to any book marketing campaign. A website, when linked to a particular book advertisement or marketing campaign, will greatly reinforce the information and marketing punch disseminated by a press release, e-mail advertisement, or any other type of online book marketing campaign.
BOOKWHIRL.com offers every author the opportunity to own a high-quality, customized website at an affordable price, providing a highly efficient weapon in today’s highly-competitive book-selling landscape.
BONUS FEATURE:
The All BOOKWHIRL.com Web Design Service
Improved Dynamics and Design
The “SEO friendly aspect” will now be incorporated in each basic Web Design Service. The Blog / Announcement Page and Payment Portal Options are also included in the technical design. The new design process is shown below:
New Standard Features
The main features of the new Web Design product are the availability of a Blog page and an option for the clients to incorporate a Payment Portal page.
Blog Page
- Gives the author an opportunity to write online whether it be stories, articles, announcements, etc.
- Search Engine Friendly
- Customer Interaction provided with “comments field”
- Easy to maintain
Website is designed to be SEO Friendly
- Free Consultation with Bookwhirl’s SEO Specialist
- Easily tracked by Search Engines
- Counters are set in the website
Website is supported by online submissions (directory listings) to boost its traffic or visitor rate.
Web Design (WD) Service Levels
If you are interested in any of BookWhirl.com's Web Design services listed below, kindly access the Online Web Design Order Form by clicking HERE.
Packages |
Lite |
Avante |
Professional |
Number of pages |
4 |
6 |
10 |
Number of Images |
4 |
6 |
10 |
Number of
Email Account
|
1 |
3 |
5 |
Number of
Animated Images
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
Domain Name
|
1 year |
1 year |
1 year |
Basic Web Hosting
|
1 year |
1 year |
1 year |
Banner Design |
none |
none |
1 of 120 x 60 pixel size |
Counter Availablity Option
|
included |
included |
included |
Number of Free
Online Listings |
50 |
50 |
50 |
Blog Page
|
included |
included |
included |
Selling Price |
$349.00 |
$549.00 |
$649.00 |
Additional Services |
Prices |
Domain Name registration and
Web Hosting |
$75 per year |
Additional page |
$49 per page |
Additional image scanned and prepared for the web |
$10 per photo |
Payment Portal
|
$49 per payment portal |
Site Maintenance |
Alterations on page
(design and copy) |
$ 40/hour billable in 30 minute increments |
Changing graphics on exisiting page |
$ 40/hour billable in 30 minute increments |
*Please be advised that the price of our Web Design Service has increased, effective February 28, 2010. This price hike is necessary due to BookWhirl.com’s increased costs of providing this online book marketing tool to our clients.
Starter Video: Web Design Service - BookWhirl.com
This audio-visual presentation convinces every self-published author that a website is a pre-requisite for book marketing campaigns. It rallies on the idea that author websites serve as an online bookstore, that’s open for prospective readers, even the ones across the globe, for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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