zippywings | My Author Website Devlog #2 @zippywings | Uploaded December 2020 | Updated October 2024, 12 hours ago.
I've been using a free WordPress.com blog as my online author site for years. As you can imagine, the conversion hasn't been great. But now I'm finally making a move to improve my online presence and build a better book shop. This video highlights my progress from mid-December to the end of the year.
It's definitely got room to grow and improve. Some of my ideas may not work. Other, more efficient ideas may come along during future development sessions. Time will tell. But this is the beginning. This is what it looks like behind the scenes at jeremybursey.com as of today.
Here are my resources if you like what I'm doing and want to do something similar:
WordPress (free):
wordpress.org/download
Divi Theme Builder ($82/yr or $249/lifetime):
elegantthemes.com/gallery/divi
Note that Divi requires WordPress to work, and WordPress requires hosting to work. I'm using Hostinger as my hosting service. It's cheap and mostly reliable.
Look around YouTube for Divi affiliates. Some of them can get you 20% off the market price. Or better yet, subscribe to Elegant Themes's newsletter to get notices on upcoming sales.
Divi alone is good, but its extensions and layouts make it better. I've also added Divi Plus, Divi Responsive Help, Divi MadMenu, Divi Toolbox, and Divi Ribbon Module to help me make my site better.
So, that's what I have so far. Tell me in the comments below if you have any website development advice or want to share your experience with these or other themes like Elementor.
I hope to open my new site in early 2021, but you can become one of the first to enter by signing up for my newsletter at sendfox.com/zippywings and looking for my announcement. (You also get free stuff for signing up, if you're in to that kind of thing.)
Thanks for watching. Don't forget to like and subscribe.
I've been using a free WordPress.com blog as my online author site for years. As you can imagine, the conversion hasn't been great. But now I'm finally making a move to improve my online presence and build a better book shop. This video highlights my progress from mid-December to the end of the year.
It's definitely got room to grow and improve. Some of my ideas may not work. Other, more efficient ideas may come along during future development sessions. Time will tell. But this is the beginning. This is what it looks like behind the scenes at jeremybursey.com as of today.
Here are my resources if you like what I'm doing and want to do something similar:
WordPress (free):
wordpress.org/download
Divi Theme Builder ($82/yr or $249/lifetime):
elegantthemes.com/gallery/divi
Note that Divi requires WordPress to work, and WordPress requires hosting to work. I'm using Hostinger as my hosting service. It's cheap and mostly reliable.
Look around YouTube for Divi affiliates. Some of them can get you 20% off the market price. Or better yet, subscribe to Elegant Themes's newsletter to get notices on upcoming sales.
Divi alone is good, but its extensions and layouts make it better. I've also added Divi Plus, Divi Responsive Help, Divi MadMenu, Divi Toolbox, and Divi Ribbon Module to help me make my site better.
So, that's what I have so far. Tell me in the comments below if you have any website development advice or want to share your experience with these or other themes like Elementor.
I hope to open my new site in early 2021, but you can become one of the first to enter by signing up for my newsletter at sendfox.com/zippywings and looking for my announcement. (You also get free stuff for signing up, if you're in to that kind of thing.)
Thanks for watching. Don't forget to like and subscribe.
