Wonderful Writers' Websites^TM 101

More than just a course; an investment in your writing future.

Next Course begins September 6th, 2010. Enrolments are now open.

Wonderful Writers' Websites (WWW) 101 is an eight week course designed especially for writers who want to become better known in the future by establishing a professional promotional website now. We give particular emphasis to the unique branding and marketing needs of the writing sector.

Pre-requisites:

• A PC running Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, or similar⁴
• Broadband Internet access (to view instructional videos)
• It is best if you do NOT already have a website or a domain name. You will obtain those during the course after you have learned some important pitfalls to avoid.
• The main tool we will use to create your web pages is called Web Page Maker, which is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor similar to a word processor. It is widely used due to its reasonable cost.

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The next course now starts in a few days on 6th September 2010.

Enrolment Step 1: Obtain your Discount. If you have a code, please enter it below, then click the Apply Coupon button. Coupon Code                                  If you do not have a code, enter the word SPEC to obtain the September Special** price, then click the Apply Coupon button.

September Special: Enrol today for For Wonderful Writers' Websites 101 and pay only NZ$12 per week for 8 weeks' tuition (NZ$96) to learn the skills needed to create your own promotional writer's website at no risk to you.**

More writers have a significant web presence every day.
Why not you?

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During the course you will:

• choose and obtain your very own domain name together with affordable web hosting
• obtain eight printable lessons to keep
• acquire background theory and translate it into practical work in each lesson
• discover the Whats, Hows and Whys of web page content
• identify the pages you need to get started
• develop the skillset necessary to create, evolve, and maintain them
• purchase and learn how to use the Web Page Maker tool to create the look and feel you want
• upload your basic Homepage to the internet by the end of the fourth lesson
• build a simple—but complete—operational website by the eighth lesson
• learn how to make your site rich in key words in order to gain recognition of your site by internet search engines
• hone your confidence in your ability to promote or market yourself and your work
• explore ways to make your work more attractive to agents and publishers
• join a community of other writers who have gone down this same road to website success and are thrilled that they did
• share access to these writers and to professional tutorial help through the forums

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About the Course:

• Week 1: How to Choose a Domain Name and Hosting
  • Choosing a Domain Name
  • What is a Domain Name?
  • What do I look for in a Good Domain Name?
  • How do I find a Name that is Not Taken?
  • Choosing a Web Hosting Provider
  • What is a Web Host Server?
  • What should I look for in a good Web Hosting Provider?
  • How do I obtain Web Hosting Service with WebhostingNZ.com?
  • Obtaining Your Domain Name and Web Hosting Account
  • Go to the Hosting Provider’s Website
  • Fill in the Forms
  • Wait for the Registration Email
  • What is Google? What is the Internet?
  • Upload? Download?
• Week 2: Components of a Writer's Website
  • Discovering the Writer’s Website
  • What is a Website?
  • What is a Writer's Website?
  • How to turn your Visitor into a Rabid Fan?
  • What are the Components of these Writers’ Websites?
  • What is Web Page Maker?
  • How to Install Web Page Maker
  • Downloading the Web Page Maker Installer
  • Running the Web Page Maker Installer program
  • Starting Web Page Maker
  • Hints for Using Web Page Maker
• Week 3: The Home Page: Great Beginnings
  • What is a Home Page?
  • What does a Home Page do?
  • Theme
  • The Construction of your Template
  • The Security Needs of your Visitor
  • Content and Style
  • Tagline
  • Registering Web Page Maker
  • Making your first Web Page
  • Publishing your first Web Page
  • Finding your Website Credentials
  • Setting up your Credentials in Web Page Maker
  • Publishing your Web Page from Web Page Maker
  • Checking your first uploaded Web Page
  • Backing Up your first Web Page
  • Homework
• Week 4: The Home Page: Branding Yourself
  • What goes on the Home Page
  • The Home Page Design
  • Fonts
  • Branding
  • The World according to Blog
  • A Writer’s Blog needs
  • Making your Home Page
  • Video Demos
  • Your Turn to Make your Home Page
  • Hints and Helps For This Week’s Practical
  • Googling Myself
  • Homework
• Week 5: The About Page: Being Yourself
  • What is an About Page?
  • What's on an About Page?
  • What do I put in my About Page?
  • Format and Content
  • Maintain your blog this week
  • Get and use a free graphics editor tool — IrfanView
  • Constructing your About Page
  • Including Home Page objects to make Other Pages
  • Individualising your About Page
  • Adding your own content to your About Page
  • Adding Contact Details: A Hard Choice
  • Finishing Up: Previewing Multiple Pages
  • Uploading All Pages to your remote web server
  • Checking All Pages on your public web site
  • Backing Up your work
  • Inserting Images on an Angle
  • Graphics Copyright on Internet Pictures
  • Appropriate Photo Sizes
  • Can we change a web page once it's published?
  • Homework
• Week 6: The Books Page: Selling Your Work
  • What is a Books Page?
  • Books? What Books?
  • Your Short Story
  • One Sentence Teaser
  • Cloning your Home Page to make your Books Page
  • Creating a New Navigation Menu Item
  • Individualising your Books Page
  • Adding your own content to your Books Page
  • Updating your Meta Tags
  • Previewing Multiple Pages
  • Uploading All Pages to your remote web server
  • Checking All Pages on your public web site
  • Backing Up your work
  • Page Width
  • Pictures – Who Owns them, and Where to Find Them
  • Can I change Colours in Tabbed Navigation Bar?
  • Altered text boxes not adjusting text
• Week 7: The Links Page: Resources for Others
  • What is a Links Page?
  • So why have a Links Page?
  • Thinking about Linking
  • Cloning your Books Page to make your Links Page
  • Creating a Tabbed Navigation Bar instead of the text bar
  • When Six Tabs are not Enough
  • Adding your own content to your Links Page
  • Update your Meta Tags for this page
  • Previewing Multiple Pages
  • Uploading All Pages to your remote web server
  • Checking All Pages on your public web site
  • Backing Up your work
  • How to Avoid Trouble with Hyperlink Colours
  • How to Change your Website over to a New Template
• Week 8: The Blog Archive: Future and Beyond
  • Meta-Tags - Being Nice to the Search Engines
  • Understanding your Blog Archiving Process
  • Changing Your Title and Meta Tags
  • Creating Pages for your Blog Archives
  • Do a WPM Backup to bring all your Image Files Together
  • Preview Multiple Pages
  • Upload All Pages to your remote web server
  • Check All Pages on your public website
  • Back Up your work
  • Submitting Your Website to Search Engines
  • Potential viewing problems for Mac users
  • Double columns. How do I do them?
  • 3D Borders
  • The A - Z of Future Proofing your Website
• We use a secondary tool called IrfanView. With this free program you will be able to crop and resize photo files for use as headers, book covers, page decorations, and backgrounds.
• There will be homework. Plan to spend 2 to 4 hours each week on your website during the course. The actual tutorials may each take only 1 to 2 hours to master, but once you have a page you will want to fill it with content, and that will take the extra time. The course is 8 weeks long.
  
• Updating the website—once complete—is fairly straightforward. The team has sought out affordable programs to allow you to edit and manage your website with minimal effort on your part, and at little cost other than your time.

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Costs of owning a website:³

In addition to the tuition fees above, indicative costs of owning and maintaining your own website are:

• For leasing your website URL (its domain name): about NZ$20 per year for a .com website (recommended)
• For having your website hosted: about NZ$1 a week for the one we recommend. This includes ample storage to hold a respectable website and is based in New Zealand, or at your choice either the USA or the UK. It is simple to sign up, simple to use, and—best of all—there is no limit on how much traffic you can have to your site. An unusual bonus.
• For website editing software: The course is based around Web Page Maker at US$49.

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There are many aspects to the Three Bears Method website development course for Writers that I like: One particularly strong aspect is how Jem and Gracie guide you through the whole concept of marketing yourself as a fiction writer. There is a lot of valuable marketing advice in their lessons which you can utilise in the development of an active marketing plan for your fiction work; a marketing plan which will be underpinned by the website you develop during this course. Another excellent aspect is when you publish your site live on the internet for the first time! It's not as complicated as many of us think, using a simple, strong website programme like Web Page Maker, and in fact the whole process turns out to be very empowering and exciting. I recommend this course to any writer prepared to invest a modest amount of time and—compared to many other options—a relatively small amount of money to promote their work, build readership, and connect with readers via their own website. Cate Harris, Apprentice Author

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Members of the previous Web Building 101 course will find their login and lessons here

*The course fee is applicable when you enrol for the course.
**To simplify payments, the fee for all eight weeks is charged once, up front. Should you request to drop the course before you download
the fourth lesson, you may keep the first three lessons with our compliments, and we will refund the entire course fee actually paid.
The additional costs of Web Page Maker and any Hosting paid for is not refundable.
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¹We personally use and recommend all software and services listed in the Classified Ads.
²Any purchase made through an affiliate link helps keep ThreeBearsMethod on the net. Thank you.
³All information is believed accurate at time of publishing this website.
⁴If you have a Mac or other computer, the sections of the course relating to Website Content and Marketing will be relevant.
A program like iWeb may be used in place of the Web Page Maker program to achieve a similar result, but this course does not cover technical help for Mac users.

 

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