Funny You Should Ask: How to Make a Website: The 100% Not Boring Guide to Setting Up Your Website with Wordpress (Funny You Should Ask: Breaking Down Internet Marketing, Publishing, SEO and More) Paperback – 12 May 2021

I bought Word Press for beginners, 279 pages. Apparently the White House uses this program. I did read some of it but as someone who was born many decades before silicone chips were invented l gave up. But now l have found and bough Lori Culwell’s book l now feel l will be able to tackle Word Press

This is part of the excellent Funny You Should Ask series of books that help with some of the challenges of publishing and marketing your books, based on the author’s own experience in the business.Whether you’re an indie or traditionally published author, this guide will help you through all the things you need to do to build a website, or update your existing one. While it’s technical in places out of necessity, the advice is easy to follow. It’s delivered with humour, examples and an understanding of the challenges you face, and offers plenty of tips to make the most of your website.As someone who already has a website, I was surprised by how many useful and practical tips I found to improve what I have. This included how to create more inviting welcome and about pages, how to boost search rankings on Google, and all manner of useful add on extras that could improve the website visibility and quality.I don’t often get excited about websites, but this book not only helped me make some significant improvements, but gave me a better understanding of its place and importance to me in marketing myself as an author.Without question this is the best and most useful book I’ve read on creating a website, and I’ve read quite a few.

This is a very good example of an instructional book that is easy to follow and acxtually quite fun in places. The advice given is fully specific where it has to be, but also informational on a more general level so as to increase the reader's understanding of website construction and administration. I have not yet discovered what "Hello Dolly" on Wordpress is but I do now know that it is annoying and should be deleted! I am using this book to build a website for my local theatre, it is an invaluable and highly useable guide to the whole labyrinthine process.

This is far and away the best book I've found on setting up a website with WordPress. I've now got all Lori's books and they are rare in fulfilling their promises of being true step-by-step books, most heartening in their simplicity and genuinely friendly encouragement.