The Best Platform For A Successful Author Website

1. You can edit your website yourself. In seconds. 

I feel like ease of editing is a thing lots of website platforms say they have, but none of them (including Squarespace) come close to the user-friendlieness of Showit. And, I recommend purchasing a Showit website template. You get a designer-made website that you can customize completely. 

Showit lets designers like me make high-quality, UX/UI designed websites into templates you can download and customize yourself. And I know for my templates I include video tutorials and a video walkthrough of the template you purchased so that you know how to edit every part of it yourself!

After working with clients who were pressured into using a WordPress website and had to pay a designer every month to “maintain” or update their website, the fact that Showit makes it easy for you to maintain makes me so happy! You should feel capable and empowered with your website.

2. Incredible Customization Capabilities

Your stories bring readers into a new world, and your website should be able to reflect that same aesthetic and feeling. And, do I really have to say it, your website should not be boring! No creative should have a clinical, corporate, or bland website. Your website should reflect your creative genius.

Showit has so many unbelievable customization capabilities, and they’ve made it so easy to use. You can infuse so much originality into your website templates that it will feel like a reflection of your brand. 

Plus, the backend of your website will (maybe for the first time ever for you) feel easy to use and work with. Want to change a picture, all you have to do is click on it. Want to change the words, click on them. So, so easy! And, to move elements you click on them and drag them anywhere you want. 

3. Mobile Customization Is Not Only Possible But Easy

This is a complaint I get from clients on platforms other than Showit. They tell me they hate the way their website looks on mobile. 

Now, this gets a little tech-y, but stay with me. Most website building platforms rely on the desktop design to “create” the mobile design, which means that your hands are pretty tied when it comes to the mobile design. Or, worse, they’ve made the mobile design code-reliant, thus making most people unable to edit their mobile version. 

Showit has it set up so that you can separately design the mobile version of your website! You can drag and drop items easily so that the mobile design is completely original and beautiful.

4. A Connected WordPress Blog You Can Access and Change Easily

I’m sure you’re thinking, “Wait, I thought you said earlier that I don’t have to use WordPress?” Technically, your website is built on Showit, but Showit essentially outsources your blog to WordPress. And that’s a good thing because literally no platform does blogging better than WordPress. 

None of your pages are designed on WordPress, so don’t fear you’ll never have to mess with that headache. And, if you opt not to have a blog, then you won’t interact with WordPress at all. All Showit does is let WordPress do what they do best, organize and promote your blog. You can’t beat the SEO gains of a WordPress blog, so you’re getting the best of both worlds. A gorgeous, easy to use Showit website and a WordPress blog. 

5. Easily Add or Scale E-Commerce

While you may be sharing the links to book stores or online retailers for people to purchase your books, you still may want or need an online shop in the future. Maybe you’ll add merch or host a retreat and need to sell tickets – and your Showit website will be able to handle that! 

Showit seamlessly integrates with popular e-commerce platforms, like Woo and Shopify, providing a secure and flexible solution for setting up and managing an online store. While you can absolutely handle the edits and customization of your website on your own, I do recommend working with a professional designer (like me!) to set up your online store. 

6. SEO Capabilities

Showit is great for Search Engine Optimization. A little inside baseball, web designers love to argue about which platforms offer better or worse SEO solutions. Showit consistently ranks well for SEO for most website designers. And, even better, it makes it easy for DIY-ers to set up their own SEO without hiring a professional. 

I offer a very detailed SEO Guide for Authors that comes included in all of my Author Website Templates. There are so many ways your Showit website can help you rank high on search engines!

7. The Showit Customer Service

Nothing can make you more frustrated than tech troubles. I feel like that’s a “truth universally acknowledged.” And that is why Showit’s customer service makes it into my specialized list of why I love Showit so much. 

When you have a question or can’t figure something out, you can immediately hop onto a chat with a real, live human! They are genuinely so helpful and nice and can walk you through your tech trouble. Plus, they love a GIF, especially if it’s from The Office or Parks & Rec.