Obviously, today’s author websites must provide a great experience for both mobile and desktop visitors. To provide some inspiration and to show what’s possible today, we collected 13 examples of author websites that we think look great on desktop and mobile devices.
The sites we chose are all sites built on Author Websites, the new website builder platform for authors that we’re building here at BookBub.
EDITORIAL NOTES
This BookBub article is a round-about advertisement for their author-centric website builder tool Author Websites. As exemplified by the one I built at author.ePubGuru.com (linked at the bottom of my BookShelf page), this tool makes building an author website a breeze, regardless of your experience. While Author Websites really does work well on both desktop and mobile devices, the same is true for a typical WordPress site, as exemplified by my main site here at ePubGuru.com.
The main advantage of WordPress is in its expansibility and sophistication, and in the universality of WordPress as a website builder, around which a universe of themes, plugins and support infrastructure have grown over many years.
The main advantage of Author Websites is how smart it is about finding your published titles online, and on the consistent manner in which it helps you build up the ecosystem surrounding each title, such as where to find the same title in different formats and on different digital publishing platforms.
