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Mar 05, 2016 01:04PM

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Just 2 minor questions:
vol 2 of Fitz & the Fool's Trilogy seems to be missing from the list?
For the 3 "amazon.com" link buttons on the novel pages, would it be possible to explicitly have "amazon.de" or "amazon.fr" displayed on the button so that we have an indication of which one to click?
PS: Love all your books and can't wait for the next Fitz and the Fool book to come out :)


As for advice, I hope you find my suggestions useful. Here are a few tips from my bag of tricks: If you don't already have it setup, add google analytics to your website. Its free and integrates with word-press and easily added via HTML. I would change the YouTube video to not show related videos. But rather any other videos from your channel. https://goo.gl/I72UV3 You may wnat to remove Meghan from the bar and create a list sub-page that links to that page, google frowns upon a navbar linking to an outside site. Lastly you can add a logo or to the tab of the browsers http://goo.gl/vsSYF3 hope this helps.

Also I just have to add I absolutely love your books, you're my absolute favourite author and I've never read any other books with as many female characters I could relate to.
/ My best regards
Matilda

That said. Keep writing. I love your work and recommend you all the time.


On the website front - it looks great, but it's extremely inefficient - please get your web-dev to try this on a slower connection!
The css and javascript should be minified, at least, and the images need to be properly down-scaled! They're currently loading the large 1254x2064 image for the small links.
Please keep writing!

Constructive Crit for the landing page:
That background image is too big (1024 x 1024px is huge for a bg, especially if it is the same on mobile) and loads too slowly. It needs to be a smaller tiled texture rather than a large repeating single image. http://subtlepatterns.com/ has some amazing tiling paper textures that would look much more sophisticated and make your site run much faster.
Your logo has not been cut out properly - there is artifacting where the pixels should be transparent and the edges of the font are jagged. Your logo is very important and should look much smoother than it does as it is the showpiece of your website - just like it is on your novels. However the drop shadow looks a bit dated, they aren't typically used for text on websites these days (look up flat design if you are interested).
It seems strange not to feature your current trilogy on the home page. If it is about the "3" rule you have going, just have a title coming soon for the next book. Design-wise this particular carousel is possibly not the best use of space as there is a huge amount of white space that is at odds with the balance of the site - a single frame containing pictures of the whole series would look much nicer as well as be able to convey more information.
I'm not sure why you have opted for both a grey and black outline around your "Author Bio", the grey one should go and the div with the black outline should be bumped up a few pixels so that the articles and bio are aligned at the top (top alignment is more important than bottom alignment). Some of the CSS probably needs fixing for this, some wayward margins and padding are probably at fault here.
Hopefully I haven't gone too far and these tips are useful.

Over the course of the next forty years, as they followed the needs of his career.

Thank you
Danny