Questions and suggestions for website development.

Please read this list of questions through, then come back and complete the answers. Please note the section about photos that follows the "submit" button at the end of the form. Thanks, AB

Name

First Name

Last Name

Email Address

Do you have a current website/blog? If so, please give the address.

On what platform is the current site developed?

Where is you domain registered? Expiration date? User name/password?

If you want to keep the current platform, who is your developer and can we continue to work with him/her? Please give full contact details. I will not contact your developer withour your permission.

Other people who will be working on the site: Name, role, email, phone number.

What do you like about your current site and would like to keep?

What do you dislike and would like to change?

From this list, please select which objectives are important to you. We will rank these when we talk.

Promote my book/s

Sell my book/s

Launch a new book

Promote my speaking career

Promote my other services (ghost-writing, editing, teaching, etc.)

Tell my story

A repository for my writing samples

Blog site

Other - please elaborate in the box below.

Other objectives for your website not on the list above.

Do you want to use ecommerce on the site? If so, who do you use for merchant services?

How would you like to integrate your social media accounts into the site?

Facebook profile URL? Log-in and password.

Twitter profile URL? Log-in and password.

Any other social media you want included in your site? Log-in and password.

Do you publish a log/calendar of your upcoming events/presentations? What is the platform?

Do you use Dropbox? If not, what cloud storage can we use for file sharing?

What secondary domain names do you have? How will they figure with this site?

URLs for videos you would like included in the site.

What image are you wanting to portray?

Search Engine Optimization (SEO). What keywords should we use in titles and copy? These are the words your visitors use to search.

Photography

Pictures tell your story. We want to gather as many relevant photos as possible to illustrate your site. Think in terms of:

Your headshot that will be used in publicity. Don't have one? Please arrange to have one made, you won't regret it.
Other, good headshots - we can often crop these out of photos if the resolution is high.
Book covers, front and back
Photos of you speaking, teaching, writing, goofing off - photos that share "you" with the site visitor.
Photos of things/people that are meaningful to you. If you look at my website, note that I illustrated each page with a photo taken by me of things from Tucson. It provides a subtle theme. At Richard Collins's site, we used his extensive collections of photos to propel visitors through the site.