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Text Prefs

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Text Prefs — a U.K. design firm is conducting a survey on how people like to read onscreen text. Tell them how you like it! They’ve promised to publish the findings so we can all do better at designing things people read.

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How-to

Friday, July 11th, 2008

How to work with a designer and a publicist.

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Personal Branding Using Social Media

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media — great overview of how to use the various social media sites to promote yourself. Password management is key here, since you could be signing up for a dozen services or more. Make a spreadsheet! (via our colleague, Jeremy Tolbert)

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How to Make the Worst Website

Friday, May 30th, 2008

How to Make the Worst Website — featuring lots of the things we tell you not to do. Here’s one thing you can do today: if you have a splash page on your site (the kind that shows a big image and says “Enter here”), take it down. Let visitors get to the real home page immediately.

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Book Launch 2.0

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Book Launch 2.0 — hilarious video! Are you familiar with all the sites mentioned? (via JKS Communications)

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Before Hiring a Web Developer or Designer

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Before Hiring a Web Developer or Designer — These are four very good questions to ask. “The differences in website quality out there are almost unbelievable, yet from the surface, the part you see, they are equally imperceptible.”

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JacketFlap

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

JacketFlap — social networking for children’s and YA authors and illustrators

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17 Tips For Getting Bloggers To Write About You

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

17 Tips For Getting Bloggers To Write About You

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An Agent Talks Websites

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Agent Rachel Vater has just posted a long, informative discussion on websites for authors, both published and unpublished. She is absolutely correct. Bookmark this post! (UPDATE: She has a follow-up, answering many of the questions that came up in the comments.)

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Typetester: Screen Font Comparison

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Typetester is a handy tool that lets you compare fonts and see how they’ll look on screen. Its drop-down menus let you know which fonts are standard on PCs and Macs, but you can also compare other fonts from your own collection.

CSS Type Set is similar tool that generates CSS for you once you’ve made your selections.

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