Big doings going on here on the Syloquies website! I updated the appearance, which you all might have seen, to better align with my brand. And a new logo, still a cat, but no longer cutesy:
But the big news is that I also decided to add a store to the website! Now if you are interested, you can buy my stories directly from me, and at a much lower price.
This was a big decision for me, and a lot of work, as I am not technologically advantaged. I did a lot of research, mostly on the fly as I realized that I didn’t understand a step (once they started talking about short codes – I was out!) or couldn’t make it do what I wanted. Luckily, the system let me keep the store in limbo until it was ready to go live.
And then, once it was live, I had to make further adjustments as I didn’t like the look. The whole site just looked too busy. There was the Home page, Posts page, Works page, About page, Contact page, Store page, Cart Page, and Checkout Page. Just too much! So more research and I found a way to reduce the number of pages. The Cart and Checkout pages are now subpages of the Store page, so it looks much cleaner. Then I realized that I had a lot of duplication between the Home, Works and About pages, so I combined all of the information on the Home page.
Now if you go to the Home Page you will see my brief bio, followed by how to purchase my work – both on Amazon and on my store (both with live links – very proud of myself for figuring that out!) and a request to sign up for my newsletter. Then below that is more information about me and what I write for anyone who is interested enough to go that far. Then the only other pages are a Posts page, Contact page and the Store page. It looks much cleaner and direct. You can see exactly what you want easily.
Let me know what you think of the new look:
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I am very pleased with how it turned out and it took me about a week to create it working on it in small batches of time while I was on vacation visiting family. If I had a few hours in the morning or afternoon, I jumped into it, if we got home early from dinner and had no other plans, I jumped into it again. There was a lot of adding plug-ins, adding pages, then removing plug-ins and removing pages until it got to a point I liked.
Heres what the store looks like now:
It’s still not perfect and is likely to be improved upon as time goes by – if I figure out how to make the various changes I want to make. The big question is: Will the store work?
Each story is uploaded as ePub, PDF and Docx, so you can get it just how you want.
If anyone tries to purchase one of my stories and has difficulty or it doesn’t load correctly or whatever, please contact me so I can try to figure it out and fix it for you.
And if it works easily for you, please let me know that too – that would really make my day!
