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Your Author Website: What Pages Do You Need?

Your author website is comprised of multiple pages. However, most authors don't know exactly what they need to have on their website.

That's why I decided to create this guide. It walks you through the most popular pages that an author website needs plus what should go on each page.

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How To Organise Your Website's Navigation Menu As An Author

As an author you need to lay out your website as if your website visitors have never heard of you and are learning about you for the first time through your website.

Your website’s main navigation should guide a viewer through the website - you should be leading them to the content you want them to read + the most popular things that readers want to see.

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6 Squarespace Hacks You Should Know

Squarespace is known for its ease of use and being friendly to the less technically savvy. And that's true - for the most part.

But there are some instances where the answer or how to do a specific 'something' aren't immediately obvious. So I thought I would show you 6 little hacks I always use when I'm designing website templates or working on my own website in Squarespace.

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You've Jumped Across To Dubsado - Now What?

So you're interested in using Dubsado. You're either currently using another CRM and want to make the switch or you're completely new to the whole CRM thing and this will be the first time using one.

You probably have a lot of questions like: Where do I begin? What pricing plan should I choose? How do I transfer my current clients over? Can I make it on brand for my business?

Today I'm going to give you a bit of a jumpstart and guide you through getting started with Dubsado.

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3 Ways To Use The Spacer Block In Squarespace

When you're designing a Squarespace website sometimes it's the little tricks that can make building it that much quicker and easier. So I thought I would share with you 3 of my favourite little tricks and tips about using the spacer block to help you.

Now I wouldn't call any of these tricks 'life changing' BUT they can make an immense amount of difference when you're constructing or redoing your website.

They can save you time and save your sanity so you don't want to pull your hair out because you just want it to do this 'one thing' and you can’t seem to make it happen.

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Portfolio Building: What Is it And How Do I Do It?

You're ready! You've done your figures, you know how much you need to charge and now you want to set up your website but uh oh... you need more photos for your portfolio.

You don't have nearly enough to fill a portfolio and your website. You know that you need a good range of different subjects and poses but how to get them?

Enter portfolio building.

What is portfolio building? Basically it's a fancy way of saying that you are gathering photos to use in your portfolio and website.

Sounds great, right? But how exactly do you go about getting more photos? Where do you find these mythical clients?

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6 Reasons Why Squarespace is the Best Choice For Photographers

You started your business because you wanted to be a photographer. Then you realised you needed a website and you went down the rabbit hole of research, too many options and despair.

And because you have too many options, figuring out what platform to use for your website has probably fallen to last place on your to do list. But I'm here to kick that bad boy back up to first place because I have 6 Reasons Why Squarespace is the Best Choice For Your Photography Website.

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Why I Chose Squarespace For My Photography Business

When building your website for your photography business there are a lot of different platform options for building and hosting your site. So many that it can be overwhelming just trying to figure out which one you should go with. That’s why in this post I explain to you exactly why I choose Squarespace for my photography business’s website.

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