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Do you own a website? Are you pleased with your presentation? Are you confident with your content? Or do you constantly worry about the writing mechanics? Worry no more! In two simple steps, we make your website's content error-free.   Step One Consultation Upon your request, one of our professional writers will visit your website. The writer will scan each page for errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar. You will then receive via email a reasonable quote.   Step Two Correction   After you approve the quote, we will begin the corrections. Our meticulous document (written in Word) will provide you with each error, its location on your website and its exact correction. All you need do is copy and paste.  To receive a free consultation, submit your name and URL. After we look it over, we'll be in touch.

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WEBSITE TIPS

  ~ Who are you? Why should I stick around? Let visitors know the answers to these two questions on the very first page. 

~ Greet your visitors with an eye-pleasing font size. They won't stick around if they can't read your words.

~ For a neat professional look, hyperlink all references on your pages. Long, cumbersome eyesores such as this http://www.readingwriters.com/yourwebsite.htm can easily become this.

~ What's obvious to you may not be obvious to your visitors. Whenever you receive a "stupid" question, don't become irritated. Clarify your site's content.

~ More often than not, background music will annoy your visitors--especially when the loop is short and the page is long. If you must place music on your site, provide an easily identifiable option: ON or OFF.

~ Avoid underlining words that are not links. Your visitors will try to click on them.

~ Place your contact info on the top or bottom of each page. Make it easy for visitors, and potential customers, to reach you. 

~ An author's name, not her current title, should be the domain name. You're going to write more than one book, right?

~ Make 'em smile! Don't be afraid to show your sense of humor. Even business sites can have a lighthearted tone.

~ Learn Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). It allows you to add graphics and colors to your text.

~ Visitors are unique individuals, and prefer to navigate in different ways. Give them choices.

~ Time it! Research shows visitors will wait about eight seconds for a page to load before they start clicking to something else. 

~ Sites with dead links and outdated content are equivalent to abandoned stores. Sign's out front, but nobody's home. 

~ Occasionally check your site on different browsers and operating systems via family, friends, libraries or work computers. You may not always see the same thing. 

~ Invest in a web authoring program such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver. Their excellent tutorials will walk you through each feature. You'll not only lower your operating costs, you'll eliminate reliance on a webmaster.

~ Whet their appetite! Rather than post your entire chapter on your site, stop in the middle of an action or a conversation that leaves readers wanting more. 

~ Keep an eye on your site statistics. They provide valuable clues about your visitors: location, time, length of visit and which pages they view the most.